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86 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
The Editor says, in a note upon this, that he himself 
never had ocular demonstration of any bird but the 
Cuckoo actually eating the gooseberry grub. The 
Redstart also feeds on worms, beetles and their 
erubs, flies (which they frequently catch on the 
wing, flying from the ground or a twig, like Fly- 
catchers or Wagtails), spiders, ants and their eggs, 
fruit and berries. 
The nest is generally to be found in a hole in 
a wall or tree: it is made of moss, and lined with 
hair and feathers. Like the Robin this bird occa- 
sionally chooses queer places for its nest. Stanley, 
in his book on Birds, gives a picture of a Redstart’s 
nest behind the hinge of a door. 
The adult male Redstart has the beak black; the 
irides brown; the throat, sides of the neck and 
cheeks, including the eye and also a very narrow 
streak over the beak, black; forehead white, a 
streak of which extends back over the eye; head, 
neck, back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts bluish 
grey; tail-coverts orange-red; greater wing-coverts 
and all the quills dusky brown, very narrowly edged 
with a lighter shade; tail orange-red, slightly darker 
than the tail-coverts, the two centre feathers dusky 
brown, except the base and the edging of the outer 
web, which are like the rest, the shafts of the 
feathers are orange-red; breast and belly the same, 
inchning to dirty white towards the under tail- 
coverts and on the flanks; legs, toes and claws dark 
