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US the following notes respecting the distribution and habits 

 of the bird — one which, though long since entered upon the 

 scientific records, has only just now found a biographer : — 



"This beautiful flycatcher has as yet been observed in our 

 territory only in the southeastern portion of Arizona, where it 

 is diffused over a considerable extent of country as a summer 

 resident. It appears not to inhabit the high mountains nor the 

 extreme lowlands, but to occupy an intermediate position, and 

 to find the rocky hills covered with a sparse growth of oak most 

 congenial to its habits. Of its breeding habits, nothing is 

 known ; though that it rears its young in such localities as 

 above mentioned there can be no doubt, since I have taken the 

 young birds in the first plumage, and still under charge of the 

 parents, at Rock Ca&on, July 21, and again of the same age at 

 Camp Crittenden, August 29. During the latter part of Au- 

 gust they appear to become more numerous ; this being due to 

 their more general distribution at the close of the nesting sea- 

 son. By the latter part of September, very few remain ; and 

 probably the species winters far to the southward. 



" Their motions are an almost exact reflection of those of 

 the common Eedstart, which they so much resemble in form. 

 With half shut wings and outspread tail, they pass rapidly 

 along the limbs of trees, now and then making a sudden dart 

 for a passing fly, which secured they again alight and resume 

 their search. They are constantly in motion, and rarely remain 

 in the same tree many moments. It not unfrequently may be 

 seen clinging to the trunk of a tree while it seizes a grub or 

 minute insect which its sharp eyes have detected hidden in the 

 bark." 



For the rest, we may hope that the nesting and singing of 

 the bird may be brought to our notice by the same person who 

 is to tell us of those particulars in the case of Cardellina ruhri- 

 frons, which breeds in the same region. 



The Redstart 



Setopbag^a rnticilla 



MotaclHa ruticiUa, L. SN. i. 1T58, lOth ed. 186, n. 15 (Gates, i. 67, etc.). 



Muscicapa rutlciUa, L. SN. i. 176C, 326 n. 10.— Bodd. Tabl. 1783, 33 (pi. 506).— Gm. SN. i. 

 1788, 935, D. 10.— Lath. 10. ii. 1700, 473, n. 22.— Titr«. SN. i. 1806, 574.— r. OAS. i. 1807, 66, 

 pis. 35, 36.— Wils. AO. i. 1808, 103, pi. 6, f. 6 ; v. 119, pi. 45, f. %—Steph. Shaw'sGZ. xi. 1817, 

 362.— I?p. Journ. Phila. Acad. iv. 1824, 170 —iJp. Ann. Lye. K. Y. ii. 1820, QB.-Aud. OB. 

 i. 1831, 202; V. 1839, 428, pi. iO.—Aud. Syn. 1839, AA.—Aud. BA. i. 1840, 240, pi. 08.-Pea6. 

 Kep. Orn. Mass. 1839, 296.— D'Orft. Ois. Cub;i, 1839, 87.— Gtr. BLI. 1844, 45— De^m?/, 

 PZS. 1847, "m.-Thomps. Vermont, 1853, App. 21.— Pra«en Tr. 111. Agric. Soc. i. 1855, 

 e>00.—Puin. Vt. Ess. Inst. i. 18.56, 20C.-FiHis, Sraitbs. Rep. for 1858, 1859, 281 (Nova 

 Scotia).— Gosse, Alabama, 1859, "m.-Trippe, Pr. Ess. Inst. vi. 1871, 114. 



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