REDSTART. 



INSESSORES. ' 

 DENTIROSTRES. 



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SYLVJAD.E. 



THE REDSTART. 



Sylvia phcenicurus. The Bedstart, PtNN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 500. 



Motacilla ,, ,, Montagu, Ornlth. Diet. 



,, ,, ,, Bewick, British Birds, vol. i. p. 246. 



,, ,, ,, Fi.EM. Brit. An. p. 68. 



Phcemcura ruticiUa, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 191. 



Sylvia phiEiiicurus, ,, Jenvns, Brit. Vert. p. 104. 



Phamicura ruticiUa, ,, Goui.n, Birds of Europe, pt. vi. 

 Sylvia phanicuriis, Bee-fin de murailles, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 220. 



The Redstart is a summer visiter that comes to this 

 country from the south, and proceeds both to the westward 

 and northward. It is not very numerous, and in some lo- 

 calities is rather rare. It makes its appearance in the south- 

 ern counties of England generally about the second week in 

 April, arrives in the neighbourhood of Carlisle by the third 

 week, but does not reach the southern part of Sweden till 

 the end of the month : and the character of the season exer- 



