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list, as I have never seen it in the Islands myself, 

 but on sending a list of the birds I intended to 

 include to Mr. MacCulloch, he wrote to say " You 

 mention Tithy's Eedstart ; the common one is also 

 seen here." In consequence of this information I 

 looked very sharply out for the birds during the two 

 months (June and July) which I was in Guernsey 

 this year (1878), but I never once saw the bird in 

 any of the Islands, nor could I find any one who 

 had; and such a conspicuous and generally well 

 known bird could hardly have escaped observation 

 had it been in the Island in any numbers. I may 

 add that I have had the same bad luck in all my 

 former visits to the Islands, and never seen a Eed- 

 start. I suppose, however, from Mr. MacCulloch's 

 note that it occasionally visits the Islands for a 

 short time on migration, very few, if any, remain- 

 ing to breed. 



It is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only 

 marked as occurring in Guernsey. There is, how- 

 ever, no specimen at present in the Museum. 



81. BLACK KEDSTART. Ruticilla titys, Scopoli. 

 French, " Eouge queue Tithys." The Black, or 

 Tithys Eedstart, as it is sometimes called, is a 

 regular and by no means uncommon autumnal 

 visitant to Guernsey. It seems very much to take 

 the place of the Wheatear, arriving about the time 

 the Wheatear departs, and mostly frequenting the 



