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REDSTART WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Phoenicurus.) 



SY. gulanigra, abdomine caudaque rufis, capite dorsoque cano, 

 Warbler with a black throat, red belly and tail, and hoary head 



and back. 



Sylvia Phcenicurus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 511. 15. 

 Motacilla Phoenicurus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 335. 34 Lin. Faun. 



Suec. 25f.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 987. 

 Ruticilla. Raii. Syn. 78. A. 5. Briss. Orn. 3. 4O3. 15. 

 Rossignol de muraille. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 170. pi. Q.f. 2. 



Buff. PL Enl. 33l.f. 1. 2. -Buff. Hist. Prov. 1. 501. 

 Redstart. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 146. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 41 6. B. 



Will Aug. 218. Albin. Birds. 1. pi. 50. Hayes. Brit. 



Birds, pi. 40. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 421. 11. Lenin. Brit. 



Birds. 3. pi. 108. Don. Brit. Birds. 4. pi. 82. Bewick. Brit. 



Birds. 1. 208. Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. Mont. Sup. 



THE Redstart is five inches and a half in length : 

 its beak and legs are black : irides hazel : fore- 

 head white : crown of the head, hind part of the 

 neck, and back, deep blueish grey : cheeks and 

 throat black : the breast, sides, and rump, rusty 

 red : quills and two middle tail-feathers brown ; 

 the rest of the tail-feathers red : female light 

 brown, with a dash of grey on the head and back : 

 the chin is whitish : the red is not so bright as the 

 male. 



The Redstart is far from a shy bird, as it will 

 often build its nest and rear its young in some 

 hole of a wall where persons are continually pass- 

 ing, but upon being disturbed will immediately 



