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36 THE NATURAE HISTORY ~ 
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Plumage a kind of olive colour, the throat and breafl # 
deep ering red. a 
Tt inhabits Europe, feeds on the feeds of the 
; fpindle tree, fings excellently, is quarrelfome, and 
confequently. folitary ; its fearlefinefs of manking 
has occafioned it every where to be diftinguifhed 
by a familiarname. The Englith call it Robin 
| Red- breaft ; the Danes, Tommi Liden ; the 
. Norwegians, Peter Ronfmad; the Germans, 
Thomas Gierdet. In feveral parts. of Europe: 
Red-breafts are birds of paflage; in general 
they fpend the fummer in the woods, and at the: 
clofe of the year frequent the habitations. of men. 
They build their nefts near the ground, upon the 
roots of young trees, or amongft plants ftrong 
enough to fupport them, in the thickeft coverts, or 
moft concealed holes of walls. The neft is made. 
of mofs, leaves, and horfe-hair, and lined with 

feathers; they often cover it with leaves, leaving 
- enly ides the heap a narrow and‘oblique en- 
_ trance, which the female coyceals with a leaf, when 
“the goes out. She lays from five to feven eggs, ofa 
_ brownith colour, or dull white, fprinkled with red- 
difh mpOwss Whilft fhe hits the male warbles in the - 
Pees woods , 

