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RED-TAIL. FIRE-TAIL. BRAN-TAIL. FIERY BRAN-TAIL. 



PLATE CX. 



Sylvia Phcenicurus, LATHAM. PENNANT. 



Phcenicum ruticilla, SELBY. SWAINSON. 



Rutidlla Phcenicurus, MACGILLIVRAY. 



Mot ac ill a Phcenicurus, MONTAGU. 



rjlHE nest, which is more or less well concealed, and 

 -L rather loosely constructed, is built of moss, dry 

 grass, and leaves, and lined with hair and feathers. It 

 is frequently placed in a hole in an old wall, under the 

 eaves of a house, in a hollow or hole in a tree, or even 

 between the branches of one, as also against a wall, 

 if extraneous support is afforded. One has been known 

 to have been placed in a watering-pot:, others in flower- 

 pots, and one in a hole in the ground, even where such 

 a choice was not made from necessity. It is frequently 

 placed close to or in the wall of a house, and that where 

 persons are constantly passing, even within reach of 

 the hand. Another has been known also placed on the 

 ground under an inverted flower-pot; the hen bird 

 successfully reared her brood, the flower-pot, which was 

 at first unwittingly removed, having been replaced by 

 the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, who relates the circumstance 



