THE NATURAL HISTORY 
fions the reft that are not taken immediately to 
fly away. 
T he young have not the red feathers on their 
breaft until after their firft moulting. About the 
beginning of Odtober, many of them prepare 
to leave France; they do not go in flocks, but 
preferve in their migrations their folitary cha¬ 
racter; they return to France in April. A gen¬ 
tleman in that month had taken feveral in nets for 
three days, one after another ; on the fourth day, 
the morning being fine, he expedled his ufual 
fuccefs, but was difappointed, not one bird could 
be found. 
However, many Rcd-brcafts remain all the 
year in France; in winter they become very 
tame, and when the ground is covered with fnow, 
approach houfes, and even fly into the rooms if the 
windows b# left open ; they difeover an affed 1 don¬ 
ate familiarity, coming to pick up crumbs on the 
table. In a monaftcry, a Red-brcaft was kept 
in one of the cells; in two or three days he 
feemed quite at his cafe : he fpent his time 
there very happily all the winter: in the fpring he 
ftruck with his bcakagainft the window, as though 
he wifhed to go, and the window being opened he 
withdrew. Sometimes they have been known to 
come for years together to the fame houfe, and 
to 
