Redstart. INSESSORES. PH(ENICURA. 191 



tail, where this colour is disposed much in the same way, 

 and is analogous to the white that marks the birds belonging 

 to the genus Sax'icola. The present group has been aug- 

 mented by the recent discovery of two or three other spe- 

 cies * in the Himalayan range of mountains, and now num- 

 bers eight or ten distinct forms. In manners, they bear a 

 great resemblance to the Stone-Chats, though their habits are 

 rather more sylvan, and they obtain part of their food by 

 searching the interstices of the decaying bark of trees, holes 

 of walls, &c. The genus is confined to the ancient world. 

 From the observations I have made upon the habits of our 

 own species, it is probable that the scansorial form of the 

 subfamily Saxicolina will belong to this genus. 



REDSTART. 



Pholsicura Ruticilla, Swains. 

 PLATE XLVI. Fig. 3. 



Sylvia phcEnicurus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 511. sp. 15. 

 Motacilla Phoenicurus, 1. p. 335. 34 — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 98?. sp. 34, 

 Rutacilla, Rail Syn. p. 78. A. 5 — Will. p. 159 — Briss. 3. p. 403. 15. 

 Le Rossignol de JNIurailles, Buff. Ois. v. 5. p. 170. t. 6. f. 2 Id. PI. Enl. 



351. f. 1. and 2. 

 Bee-fin de Murailles, Temm. Man d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 220. 

 Schwarzkeliger Sanger, Meyer, Tassclienb. Deut. v. 1. p. 244. — Bechst. 



Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 607 — Frisch, t. 19. f. 1. male, t. 20. f. 1. A. and 



fig. 2. A. female, fig. 2. B. young male. 

 Geckragde Roodstaart, Sep. Nedrel. V6g. v. 4. p. 361. 

 Redstart, Br. Zool. 1. No. 146 — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 416. B Will (Ang.) 



p. 218 — Lath. Syn. 4. p. 421. 11 — Lewin's Br. Birds, 3. t. 108 Albin. 1. 



t. 50 — Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 8 — Mont. Ornith. Diet Id. Supp Do7i. 



Br. Birds, 4. t. 82 Bewick's Br. Birds, v. 1. f. 208. 



Provincial — RedtaiL 



The Redstart is found in most of the eastern, midland. Periodical 

 and northern parts of the kingdom, but, according t/3 Mon- ^^^ ^" ' 



*In Gould's " Century of Himalayan Birds," three species of Redstarts 

 are beautifully figured. Two of these seem true to the typo ; but the 

 third {Phasnicura Rubeculoides) appears, from its form and plumage, to 

 have a nearer affinity to the genus Erythaca or Sialia than to I'hoenicura. 



