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RED-S T'A R T. 
Defcriptlon and CharaEler. 
T HIS bird is fo named from its red tail*. 
and is in lize fomething lefs than the 
Robin-Red bread:. 
It is faid to be of fo fullen a nature, that if 
taken old, and not brought up from the ned, it 
will not for feme days look at its meat, and it 
will be fo vexed, as is hardly credible : but, if 
brought up young, they become gentle and 
tame, being of a cbearful fpirit, and have a 
very pretty melodious kind of whittling fong. 
It is thought, they come with the Nightingale 
to England in the Summer, and go away again 
in the Winter. 
Dijtinguifhing Marks of /he Cod and Hen. 
T.HE cock is very fair, Deautifully coloured, 
and exceeding pleafant to the eye. Elis bread, 
rump, and tail, are of a fine red ; the back, 
neck, and hind-part of the head, of a lead co- 
tour ; the fore-part of his head, and throat, of a 
jst black, and he has a white mark upon his pole. 
