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SYLVIAD2E. 



INSESSOUJBS. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



SYLVIADsE. 



THE BLACK REDSTART. 



Phcenicura tithys. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 193. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 105. 

 EYTON, Karer Brit. Birds, p. 7. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe. 

 TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. 

 p. 218. 



THE BLACK REDSTART, which is at once distinguished 

 from the well-known and common Redstart, last described, 

 by being sooty black on the breast and belly where the 

 other is reddish brown, was first made known as an occa- 

 sional visitor to this country by Mr. Gould, who recorded 

 the occurrence and capture of a specimen near London in 

 October, 1829: and another example has since been seen 

 in the Regent's Park. In ] 830, two other specimens were 



