687. Setophaga ruticilla 
AMERICAN REDSTART. 5inches 
Male. Above black; large wing patch and tail blotches orange. 
Below black; belly white; sides of breast orange. Female. 
Greenish gray where the male is black, and yellow where it is 
orange. 
An inhabitant of the maples and elms of the roadside, also found in 
open woodlands. It is a gay little flycatcher, and in flight suggests 
aminiature Baltimore Oriole. Commonin Massachusetts. Arrives 
about May 5. 
Song. “ Weechee, weeche, weeche,” thin and wiry on a rising scale. 
Nest. Ina crotch not very high up. 
Breeds. Throughout New England. 
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