ROBIN- REDBREAST. 
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Time and Manner af building their Nef. 
The Robin breeds in the Spring, and com- 
monly three times a-year, viz. April, May, and. 
June. The hen builds her neft on the fide .-of 
a ditch or bank, amongft thorns and briars, or 
hedges ; likewife in the woods, which they 
haunt in Summer. Thofe that flay about f irm- 
yards build in out-houies, and broken walls of" 
old buildings; her neft is made of coarfe mate- 
rials, the oudide of dry green mofs, intermixed 
with coarfe wool, fmall dry’d flicks, flraws, 
leaves, peelings from young trees and other 
dry’d fluff, lined with a few horfe -hairs, on 
which flie lays five or fix eggs, but fometimes 
no more t’nan four, of a cream colour, fprinkled 
all over with line redifh yellow fpots at the 
blunt end, f'o thick that they appear almoft in 
one. 
Of the Toting, hew to order them , 5 jfc . 
You may take them at ten or twelve days 
old : if you let them lie too long, they are apt 
to be fallen, and confequently much more ire li- 
bido me to bring up : put them in a little be 1 
ket with foft hay at the bottom, and be lure l 
lie warm, efpeeiuMy in the night. 
