. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . ^t i^f^^irecij Cy /JmIva. Jtactfai ■J oi>;(;.a!TYOGE. MA USA 54 -«** NEST AND EGGS OF THE REDSTART. PLATE LIV. The Redstart makes her nest in walls, crevices ofrocks or hollow trees : the materials are moss, driedherbs, wool, and feathers. The nest, now before me,consists, for the most part, of various kinds of moss,with here and there a little wool mixed amongst it,and is loosely bound t
. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . ^t i^f^^irecij Cy /JmIva. Jtactfai ■J oi>;(;.a!TYOGE. MA USA 54 -«** NEST AND EGGS OF THE REDSTART. PLATE LIV. The Redstart makes her nest in walls, crevices ofrocks or hollow trees : the materials are moss, driedherbs, wool, and feathers. The nest, now before me,consists, for the most part, of various kinds of moss,with here and there a little wool mixed amongst it,and is loosely bound together with dried blades andstalks of grass. The lining is of red cows hair, witha few feathers laid upon it. The eggs are five or sixin number; blue, with a cast of green, and destitute ofspots. The Redstart is one of our summer visitors;comes in April and leaves us in September. The Cocksings pleasantly in breeding time ; his song nearly re-sembles that of the Redbreast, but is lower and not sowell varied. What is recorded by Ray and others concerning thesullenness of this bird, I have not, on trial, found tobe h/tjl aJ^^jyj-o/rU^^ah^0yi^f^ .. university; ^.^..».^s< MA USA 55 MOLACILLA RUBECULA. Lin. Syst, 337. THE RED BREAST, PLATE LV. X he Bill is black at the tip, brown at the base; theiris of the eyes a pale brown ; the pupil black ; the topof the head, the back and coverts of the tail, are of adusky olive colour; the wings and tail more dusky,but the borders of the feathers in both are of the sameolive colour. The forehead, throat, and breast are ofa dull orange colour ; the belly, dusky white ; the legsand feet black. I have figured the cock in the attitude which he fre- o quently assumes when in his summer retreats, amongsttrees and bushes, where he perches himself upon aspray not far from his mistress and family, and singsdelightfully. I have figured the female as we see her in time ofsnow, when contracted to a ball
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