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18 «THE NATURAL HISTORY. 

fions the reft that are ~ taken immediately to | 
fiyaway. : 
The young Have not the red feathers on their 
breaft until after their irft moulting. About the” 
beginning of October, many of, them prepare” 
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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 expected his. ufual 
| fuccefs, but was difappointed,. not one bird could. 
be found, . 
However, many Red-breafts remain: all the 
year in France; in. winter they become very 
tame, and when the ground is covered with {now,. 
approach houfes, and even fly into the rooms if the. 
windows be left open; they difcover an aftecion- 
ate familiarity, coming to pickup crumbs on the: 
table. In a monaftery, a Red-breaft was ‘kept 
in one of the cells; in two or three days he. 
feemed quite at his cafe: he {pent his :time 
there very happily all the winter: in the fpring he - 
ftruck with his beak againfi 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 
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