. Birds I have kept in years gone by : with original anecdotes and full directions for keeping them successfully . ■^ -^^^ij^ Tin: ROBIN REDBREAST, The Rohin Redbreast. 43 tail. The forehead, cheeks, and breast are orange red, andthe upper part of the body, and the tail and wings are dingy-olive green. The female is smaller, has less of the orange colour on herforehead, and has a paler breast: her legs are a purplishbrown, while those of her mate are darker in colour. Unlesswhen very old she also lacks the yellow spot on the wingcoverts, which is so conspicuous in the male. The young, when fir
. Birds I have kept in years gone by : with original anecdotes and full directions for keeping them successfully . ■^ -^^^ij^ Tin: ROBIN REDBREAST, The Rohin Redbreast. 43 tail. The forehead, cheeks, and breast are orange red, andthe upper part of the body, and the tail and wings are dingy-olive green. The female is smaller, has less of the orange colour on herforehead, and has a paler breast: her legs are a purplishbrown, while those of her mate are darker in colour. Unlesswhen very old she also lacks the yellow spot on the wingcoverts, which is so conspicuous in the male. The young, when first hatched, are covered with yellowdown, then they become grey, and their breast feathers arefringed with dusky yellow, which gives them a mottled ap-pearance, as unlike that of their parents as possible; nor dothey assume the adult plumage until the second moult. Charmingly familiar in winter, the Robin is excessivelyshy in summer, when the male retires with his partner tothe most solitary and out-of-the-way place he can find, torear his little family. The nest, inartistically built of leavesand moss, line
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