122 TITHYS REDSTART. 



Mr Gould's specimen was got in October, one 

 near Bristol in December, and another in Devon- 

 shire in January. In its habits it is said to 

 resemble the last species, frequenting rocky de- 

 files, and being rather abundant in mountainous 

 districts, breeding in clefts of rocks, or in walls, 

 even frequenting villages, and using the crevices 

 in the buildings as nestling places. Temminck 

 gives the Morea, and Mr Strickland the bare 

 rocky hills near Smyrna, as portions of its range. 

 The food also consists of berries, fruits, or insects. 

 The song is clear, but riot extensive, and it has a 

 call note, uttered as it moves from place to place. 

 In all it is more allied to the Stonechats than the 

 last. 



In the male, the chin, throat, sides of the neck, 

 and breast, shading into bluish gray on the belly, 

 and having the lower feathers of the black mar- 

 gined witk the same colour. The head and back are 

 dark bluish gray, shaded into the black of the neck. 

 The quills are blackish gray, having the greater 

 covers and tertials margined with grayish white. 

 The centre tail feathers are umber brown, the 

 others, with the rump and upper tail coverts, 

 orange red. The female has the whole of the 

 body of a yellowish gray colour, the quills and 

 secondaries of a deeper shade, margined with 

 pale yellowish brown ; the under tail coverts pale 

 orange ; the tail the same colour as in the 

 male.* 



* Illustrations of Ornithology. Descrip. to pi. LXXXV. 



