BLACK REDSTART. 277 



being margined with buffy white ; tail-feathers brownish 

 red; under surface of the body light grey. 



The young birds of the year in their first plumage re- 

 semble adult females : the young males afterwards assume 

 by degrees a light grey colour ; but it is probable they are 

 several years old before they attain the very dark sooty 

 grey colour ; so many shades of grey being observable 

 among them. 



The vignette below represents the nest of the Black 

 Redstart, reduced in size, from the coloured figure forming 

 the subject of the fifteenth plate in the work of Dr. Schinz 

 on the Eggs and Nests of the Birds of Switzerland and 

 Germany, published at Zurich in 1819. 



