AMERICAN REDSTAR1. 
the wing feathers, two middle tail feathers, and the ter- 
minal third of the rest of the tail feathers black; other 
portions of these feathers and the sides of the breast and 
flanks scarlet-salmon or orange salmon; extreme under 
parts white tinged with salmon; bill with bristles at the 
base. Female, salmon color replaced by light ochre 
yellow; head brown-gray; back olive green with a gray 
tinge; under parts except where marked with dull yel- 
low, gray white. There are birds whose yellow tones 
have a greenish cast. . Nest in the Y of a young tree or 
shrub; it is lodged at a point anywhere from five to 
twenty-five feet above the ground, and is skilfully woven 
with plant fibres, leaf stalks, and fine rootlets, and lined 
with finer material of the same nature including plant 
down. Egg a blue-gray white speckled mostly at the 
larger end with cinnamon and olive browns. This bird 
is distributed throughout North America; it breeds from 
North Carolina and Kansas to Hudson’s Bay, and winters 
in the West Indies and tropical South America. 
The song of the Redstart is a very simple and mon- 
otonous one generally consisting of seven notes all of 
a kind, except the last one which is in most cases a drop 
of about a major third. It could be fairly represented by 
miseries of dots, thuB2.04/6\5) 5 The musical 
notation does not look very different: 
Vivace. cres. accel. p 
The voice is pitched very high, there is no overtone, and 
there is a slight crescendo and accelerando; but it is very 
slight. The song has few if any variations; the follow- 
ing record will show how slight they usually are, and 
how fixed the monotonous rhythm is: 
3 times 8yva. 
Vivace “ores. accel, 
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