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REDSTART. 



BED TAIL. FIEE-TAIL. BEAN-TAIL. FIERY BEAN-TAIL. 



Sylvia Phcenicurus, LATHAM. PENNANT. 



Phcenicura ruticilla, SELBY. SWAINSON. 



Ruticilla Phcenicurus, MACGILLIVRAY. 



Motacilla Phtenicurus, MONTAGU. 



Sylvia. Sylva A wood. Phcenicurus. Phoenix Purple red. 



Oura A tail. 



THIS is an exceedingly pretty bird, and one which it is 

 always interesting to watch. As it flirts out a little way 

 from its accustomed cover, and as suddenly returns to it, you 

 cannot help looking for its re-appearance with interest, even 

 though in the constant habit of thus making its transient 

 acquaintance. 



It is a lively and graceful species, and, though not common, 

 yet is not uncommon, in the districts throughout which it 

 occurs. It frequents the most retired and the most sequestered 

 scenes, and is to be seen in close propinquity to the inhabited 

 house in the country, as well as in the wild and retired 

 dingle, among the ivy-clad rocks of the overhanging inland 

 cliff, and by the margin of the wood and the thicket, on the 

 hawthorn hedge, and in the orchard, the trim garden and 

 the tangled bank of the winding lane. 



So also, it is not shy, nor yet familiar, for though, on the 

 one hand, it never enters into a house, so, on the other, it 

 is not found among the open and barren parts of the country, 

 nor in places that are entirely destitute of wood, and fearlessly 

 builds its nest in the crevices of the wall of an inhabited 

 house. 



The Redstart is distributed over the greater part of Europe, 

 from Holland, France, Spain, and Italy, to G-ermany, Russia, 



