ROBIN-REDBREAST. 
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very bold bird, fociable and familiar with man, 
but not with any bird befides his own mate. 
In the Summer, when there is plenty of food 
in the fields, and he is not pinched with cold, 
he will withdraw himfelf into the moft defart 
places, where he generally builds his neft, being 
a folitary kind of bird, that loves to feed fingly, 
and lives upon worms, ants, their eggs, and o- 
iher infedts, See. Notwithfianding, thefe birds 
are faid to withdraw from houfes into the woods 
in the Summer-time, as indeed mo ft of them 
do ; yet there are a great many that breed 
and harbour about farm-yards and out houfes 
all the year through. 
DiJUnguifhittg Murks of the Cock. 
The cock may be known by his bread, being 
of a deeper red than the hen’s, and the red go- 
ing up farther upon the head, and fome fay by 
the colour of his legs, which are darker, and 
by certain hairs which grow os each fide of his 
bill : the bright red breaft is a mark that may 
be depended upon, the others do not always 
hold. The cocm is likewife of a darker olive 
upon the upper furface of his whole body. 
