. The sportsman's British bird book . - marked to enable the tobe definitely distinguished. It is, however, a popular error to regardyoung birds in their first plumage as females. These immature birdshave a conspicuously mottled plumage, the pattern on the upper-partsbeing produced by ochery-buff centres to feathers with an ochery-brownground-colour and black tips ; the under-parts are paler and moresparsely spotted, without any trace of the brick-red on the throat andbreast characteristic of the adults. After the first autumn moult theadult dress is assumed, although the red waistcoat
. The sportsman's British bird book . - marked to enable the tobe definitely distinguished. It is, however, a popular error to regardyoung birds in their first plumage as females. These immature birdshave a conspicuously mottled plumage, the pattern on the upper-partsbeing produced by ochery-buff centres to feathers with an ochery-brownground-colour and black tips ; the under-parts are paler and moresparsely spotted, without any trace of the brick-red on the throat andbreast characteristic of the adults. After the first autumn moult theadult dress is assumed, although the red waistcoat does not attainits full brilliancy and the middle wing-coverts have golden-buff MOUNTED IN THE ROWtAND WtKD STUDIOS KKDBREAST. BLUETHROAT 467 The redbreast (in the usual acceptation of the term) ranges andbreeds throughout temperate Europe, although met with only locallyin the south of Spain. Its representative in the Canaries has beenseparated as a distinct species, although the rank of a local race mightperhaps better express the difference. Eastwards our bird extends tothe Urals ; but in Siberia, and again in the Caucasus and Persia, itsplace is taken by other species. In the Outer Hebrides and theShetlands the redbreast does not ordinarily breed, although it is re-corded to have nested in the latter islands in 1901. As is the casewith so many resident birds, redbreasts undergo a partial migration,those from the more northern districts coming south, while some ofthose inhabiting southern Europe cross the Mediterranean. Nothing in the habits of this bird—unless it be its confidingnature and its winter singing—calls for special notice. The nest,which is made
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