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brown. The female is not nearly so conspicuous, 
the whole of the upper parts being hair-brown, 
with a rather darker shade on the quills and 
wing-coverts; tail and tail-coverts like the male, 
but not quite so bright; throat and all the under 
parts dirty white, with a brown tinge on the ee 
breast. , 
In the young birds the feathers of the upper” ; 
parts are yellowish brown, narrowly edged with . 
dusky, the colours getting brighter towards the 
tail-coverts, which, with the tail, are lke the 
adult; primary quills dusky; secondaries, tertials 
and greater wing-coverts dusky, edged with rusty ; 
the under parts are lighter than the upper, but the 
feathers are equally edged and tipped with dusky ; 
beak, legs, toes and claws lighter than in the adult 
male. 
The eggs are very much like those of the Hedge- 
sparrow, both as to size and colour. 
Buack Repstrarr, Phenicura Tithys. The Black 
or “ Tithys Redstart,” as it is often called, is a rare 
bird in this county, but specimens do occasionally 
occur in various parts. Yarrell mentions two as 
having been killed near Bristol, one in the year 1830, 
and another in the December of 1835. Another was 
shot afew years ago in Galminton Lane, near ‘T'aun- 
ton, and was very kindly presented to me by Mr. Mar- 
shall, of Belmont, together with a female bird which 
had been shot in one of the more northern counties ; 
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