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RED BREAST WARBLER. 
(PI. XVII.) 
LENGTH 
Five ;^d half inches ; bill three-eighths and black; eyes black; lashes the same; 
Forehead white; head, neck, chin, throat, back, rump, and tail-coverts, a deep 
black; breast crimson; belly and vent white ; shoulders black; lesser wing-coverts 
white; primary black ; secondary the same, crossed with two bars of white; greater 
wing-coverts black, the third feather has a broad edge of black and part of the first 
row ; lesser w T ing-coverts the same; tail black and forked, the two outward feathers 
white, with a dash of black near the end ; thighs black ; legs and claws the same. 
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FEMALE 
Bill black ; forehead white ; crown a brown-grey dashed with brack ; hind head, 
neck, back, rump, and tail-coverts, brown-grey; chin white ; breast light crimson; 
belly pale oker ; greater w T ing-coverts edged with the same; tail black, outer feather 
white ; thighs grey ; legs and claws black. 
INHABITS 
Forests ; frequents low trees. This is a solitary bird; its note resembles that of the 
robin in England; frequenting also the abode of man in winter. This species does 
not migrate. 
