. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. i66 THE REDSTART. if ! 'â i'L â¢l'â¢'!*«'r ft fj H â iâ ^. alifurd ; that if the young be handled, the pa- rents will leave them to their fate, or throw them out of their neft *. The reclftart, though it lives amidft our dwellings, continues ftill favage. It has neither the familiarity of the redbreaft, the fprightlinefs of the fauvette, nor the animation of the night- ingale ; its habits are folitary, its charader is ful- len and fad-j-. If it be caught in the adult
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. i66 THE REDSTART. if ! 'â i'L â¢l'â¢'!*«'r ft fj H â iâ ^. alifurd ; that if the young be handled, the pa- rents will leave them to their fate, or throw them out of their neft *. The reclftart, though it lives amidft our dwellings, continues ftill favage. It has neither the familiarity of the redbreaft, the fprightlinefs of the fauvette, nor the animation of the night- ingale ; its habits are folitary, its charader is ful- len and fad-j-. If it be caught in the adult ftate, it will refufe all fuftenance, and pine to death J ; or if it furvive the lol's of its liberty, an obfti- nate filence will mark its difconfolate condition. However, if it be taken from the neft and raifed in the cage, it will fing; and inftrudions, or the imitation of other birds, will improve its warble §, which is heard indifcriminately at every hour, and even during the night ||. It is fed with crumbs of bread, and with the fame pafte as the nightingale ; it is even more clelicate II. When at libtrty, it lives on flies, * Albin, vol. i. p. 44. f " Their young much refemble thofe of the redbreafts; they cannot be foeafilyraifed. I have keptoiie awholewinter; it feemed of a timid difpofition, yet was it continually hop- ping, and had a very keen eye j it could diltiaguifli at one end of the room the fmallefl infeft at the other, and darted to it in an inftant, emitting a cry in feizing ; No-e iWi- muti'icated by the Vijcoimt lie ^terhotat. 4: Aibln, \ol. I. p. 44. § Idem, ibidem. Il , {jcceiiaria, p. 47. % Belon. fplderp, ^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T.
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