BRITISH BIRDS.* 
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few years ago ; they have fince been obferved in 
greater numbers, and are fuppofed fometimes to 
winter with us. Buffon fays they are natives of 
Provence, where they frequent gardens, and feed 
on flies and fmall infects. Our reprefentation was 
taken from a fluffed fpecimen in the Wycliffe Mu- 
feum, now in the poffeflion of Geo. Allan, Efq. of 
the Grange, near Darlington. 
THE REDBREAST. 
ROBIN-REDBREAST, OR RUDDOCK. 
( Motacilla rubecola , Lin . — Le Rouge-gorge, Buff.) 
This general favorite is too well known to need 
a very minute defcription : Its bill is flender and 
delicate ; its eyes are large, black, and expref- 
five, and its afpe£t mild ; its head and all the upper 
parts of its body are brown, tinged with a greenifh 
