REDSTART. 



INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



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SYLVIADM. 



THE REDSTART. 



Pktenicura ruticitta. 



Sylvia pluEnicurus, The Redstart, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 500. 



Motacilla MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



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



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 68. 



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



Sylvia phtenicurus, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 104. 



Phanicura ruticilla, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. vi. 

 Sylvia phcenicurus, Bee-fin de murailles, TEMM. 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 

 the third week, but does not reach the southern part of 



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