REDSTART. 



SET0FHA6A BUTICILLA. 



RAEE is the bird in our woods as dashing as the 

 redstart. As he runs rapidly along the limbs 

 or makes his short flights in pursuit of insects, he is 

 perpetually spreading his gayly painted tail, shooting 

 flashes of fire among the green leaves. If proud of 

 his plumage, he seems equally proud of his song, brief 

 and monotonous as it is, and borrowed (perhaps) from 

 his cousin, the yellow warbler : — 





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