44 REDSTAET. 



and dusky brown; back, pale reddish brown, tinged with pale 

 grey on each feather. Greater and lesser wing coverts, broadly 

 edged with pale brown ; tail and tail coverts, rufous. At the 

 end of the summer, the edges of the feathers being worn, 

 the back becomes mc-re grey, the black and the red less 

 edged, and the wings and tail lighter. 



A variety of a white colour was shot by Martin Curtler, 

 Esq., of Bevere House, Worcester, ip June, 1849. 





