REDSTART. 259 
INSESSORES. SYLVIA DE, 
DENTIROSTRES. 
THE REDSTART. 
Phenicura ruticilla. 
Sylvia  phenicurus, The Redstart, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 500. 
Motacilla on =~ Monraau, Ornith. Dict. 
Bewick, British Birds, vol. i. p. 246. 
Fem. Brit. An. p. 68. 
9 39 ” 
3° 3” 29 
Phenicura ruticula, as SELBY, Brit. Ornith. yol. i. p. 191. 
Sylvia phenicurus, 5 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 104. 
Phenicura ruticilla, 5 GouLp, Birds of Europe, pt. vi. 
Sylvia phenicurus, Bec-fin de murailles, 'TzmM. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 220. 
Tue Repstarr 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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