Redpoll. Redpoll Linnet 



Rosy are their caps as morning 

 When the storm clouds gather eastward, 

 Happy are their hearts and voices, 

 Happy are the fields and forests, 

 When their merry notes come jingling, 

 Sleighbell like, from upper ether. 



BoLLES. Chocorua's Tenants.^^ 



REDSTART 



The Germans call this Uttle bird roth Stert (red tail), 

 but, like so many popular names, this is a misnomer, as, 

 strictly speaking, the redstart is never red, though its 

 salmon-orange markings often border on to orange-flame. 



Neltje Blanchan. Bird Neighbors.^^ 



If the male redstart is a fiery coal, the female is a trail 

 of ashes in his wake. 



Parkhurst. The Birds' Calendar.^^ 



In Cuba most of our wood warblers are known simply 

 as ''Mariposas" — butterflies; but the redstart's bright 

 plumage has won for him the name '^Candelita" — the 

 little torch that flashes in the gloomy depths of tropical 

 forests. 



Chapman. Handbook of Birds. ^^ 



They show warbler blood by the mad way they career 

 about, opening and shutting their tails fan-fashion, turning 

 somersaults, flitting from branch to branch, stopping a 



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