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DENTIROSTRES. 



REDSTART, 



269 

 SYLVIAD^E. 



THE REDSTART. 



Phcenicura ruticilla. 



Sylvia phcenicurus, The Redstart, 

 Motacilla 



Phcenicura ruticilla, 

 Sylvia phMnicwrus, 

 Phcenicura ruticilla, 

 Sylvia phanicurus, 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 500. 

 MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 

 BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 246. 

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 68. 

 SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 191 . 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 104. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. 

 p. 220. 



THE REDSTART is a summer visitor that comes to this 

 country from the south, and proceeds both to the westward 

 and northward. It is not very numerous, and in some 

 localities is rather rare. It makes its appearance in the 

 southern counties of England generally about the second 

 week in April, arrives in the neighbourhood of Carlisle by 



