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BLACKSTART. 



BLACK REDSTART. BLACK RED-TAIL. TITHYS REDSTART. 



PLATE CXI. 

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Sylvia TitJiys, 

 Sylvia Gibraltarien&is, LATHAM. 



Phcenicura Tithys, GOULD. SELBT. 



Ficedula Titliys, ETTON. 



Motacilla atrata, 



THE nest, which is rather large, is placed among the clefts of stones 

 or rocks, and also in the holes of walls and ruins, the spires, towers, 

 and higher parts of churches, and the roofs of houses. It is formed 

 of grasses, moss, wool, and the dry stalks and fibres of plants, and is 

 lined more or less with hair or feathers. 'It is/ says W. R. Fisher, 

 Esq., of Yarmouth, 'formed of almost any material which is suitable, 

 and can be readily obtained. I have found it composed of grey worsted, 

 taken from a loose ball which was lying in a garret/ 



The eggs are from five to seven in number, and of a very pure 

 glossy white in colour, and the shell peculiarly fragile and transparent. 

 I have been favoured by R. W. Hawkins, Esq., of Rugeley, Staffordshire, 

 with the nest and egg of this bird, taken at Longdon. 



The young are hatched after thirteen days incubation. Two broods 

 are frequently reared in the year, the first being hatched by the beginning 

 of May, and the second soon following it being abroad in June. The 

 same situation is frequently returned to year after year. 



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