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REDBREAST ,2 or ROBIN, perhaps the favourite among English birds because of its pleasing colour, its sagacity and fearlessness of man, and its cheerful song, even in winter. In July and August the hedgerows of the southern counties of England are beset with redbreasts, not in flocks, but each individual keeping its own distance from the next 3all, how-ever, on their way to cross the Channel. On the European continent the migration is still more marked, and the redbreast on its autumnal and vernal passages is the object of bird-catchers, since its value as a delicacy has long been recognized. Even those redbreasts which stay in Britain during the winter are subject to a migratory movement
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Besides the British Islands, the redbreast (Motacilla rubecula of Linnaeus and the Erithacus rubecula of modern authors) is generally dispersed over the continent of Europe, and is in winter found in the oases of the Sahara. Its eastern limits are not well determined. In northern Persia it is replaced by a nearly allied form, Erithacus hyrcanus, distinguishable by its ' The borough of Red Bank should be distinguished from a place of the same name in Gloucester county, New Jersey
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2 English colonists in distant lands have applied the common nickname of the redbreast to other birds that are not immediately allied to it. The ordinary " robin " of North America is a thrush, Turdus migratorius (see FIELDFARE), and one of the bluebirds of the same continent, Sialia sialis, is in ordinary speech the blue " robin "; the Australian and Pacific " robins " of the genus Potroeca are of doubtful affinity and have not all even the red breast; the Cape " robin " is Cossophya caffra, the Indian " robin " Thamnobia and the New Zealand " robin " Miro. 3 It is a very old saying that Unum arbustum non alit duos erithacosOne bush
more ruddy hues, while in northern China and Japan another species, E. akahige, is found of which the sexes differ somewhat in plumagethe cock having a blackish band below his red breast and greyish-black flanks, while the hen closely resembles the familiar British speciesbut both cock and hen have the tail of chestnut-red. The genus Erithacus, as well as that containing the other birds to which the name " robin " has been applied, with the doubtful exception of Petroeca, belong to the sub-family Turdinae of the thrushes (q.v.). End of Article: REDBREAST If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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