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S. Phoenicurus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 220. Redstart, Mont. 

 Orn. Diet. Selb. Illmt. vol. i. p. 191. pi. 46. f. 3. Bew. Brit. Birds, 

 vol. i. p. 239. 



DIMENS. Entire length five inches seven lines : length of the bill 

 (from the forehead) five lines and a half, (from the gape) eight lines and 

 a half; of the tarsus eleven lines; of the tail two inches five lines; from 

 the carpus to the end of the wing three inches : breadth, wings extended, 

 nine inches four lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Adult male.) Forehead white: base of the bill, lore, 

 cheeks, throat, and a portion of the under surface of the neck, black : 

 head, upper part of the neck, and back, deep bluish gray : breast, rump, 

 flanks, and under tail-coverts, bright rust-red ; tail the same, excepting 

 the two middle feathers, which are brown : abdomen whitish : feet black. 

 (Adult female.) Upper parts reddish gray : quills and coverts edged with 

 reddish yellow : throat white ; in very old individuals dusky, mixed with 

 reddish : breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts pale reddish orange : ab- 

 domen whitish : rump rust-red : tail the same, the two middle leathers 

 excepted, which are brown edged with red. ( Young males of the year.) 

 Upper parts reddish ash ; no white on the forehead ; the black on the 

 throat, and the red on the breast, variegated with white. (Egg.) Uniform 

 grayish blue : long. diam. eight lines and a half; trans, diam. six lines and 

 a half. 



A summer visitant, first appearing about the second week in April. 

 Common in most, parts of the kingdom, but said to be rare in some of 

 the western counties. Frequents gardens and woods, and builds in the 

 holes of trees and old walls. Nest composed of moss, and lined with hair 

 and feathers. Eggs five to seven in number. Young broods fledged 

 about the second week in June. 



47. S. Tithys, Scop. (Black Red-tail.) Upper parts 

 bluish ash : throat and breast black : rump and under tail- 

 coverts red : second quill equal to the seventh. 



S. Tithys, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 218. Phcenicura Tithys, 

 Jard. and Selb. Orn. pi. 86. figs. 1 and 2. Black Red-tail, Lath. 

 Syn. vol. n. p. 426. Tithys Redstart, Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 193. 

 pi. D. f. 1, 2. 



DIMENS. Entire length five inches three lines. TEMM. 



DESCRIPT. (Male.) Upper parts bluish ash : space between the eye 

 and the bill, cheeks, throat arid breast, deep black, passing into bluish 

 ash on the belly and sides: rump and under tail-coverts rust-red; the 

 two middle tail feathers brown ; the others red : lower part of the abdo- 

 men whitish: greater wing-coverts edged with pure white. (Female.) 

 Upper and under parts cinereous, dull above, brighter beneath, passing 

 into whitish on the lower part of the abdomen : quills and wing-coverts 

 dusky, edged with cinereous gray : rump, tail, and under tail-coverts red- 

 dish, not so bright as in the male. (Egg.) White : long. diam. ten lines ; 

 trans, diam. seven lines. 



First added to the British Fauna by Mr Gould, who obtained a spe- 

 cimen which was shot at Kilburn, near London, Oct. 25, 1829. (See Zool. 

 Journ. vol. v. p. 102.) Two other individuals were procured during the 

 Summer of 1830, one near Bristol, the other at Brighton. Common on 

 some parts of the Continent. Habits said to resemble those of the last 

 species. 



