BLACK REDSTART. 267 
being margined with buffy white; tail-feathers brownish 
red; under surface of the body light grey. 
The young birds of the year in their first plumage resem- 
ble adult females: the young males afterwards assume by 
degrees a light grey colour; but it is probable they are 
several years old before they attain the very dark sooty 
grey colour; so many shades of grey being observable 
among them. : 
The vignette below represents the nest of the Black 
Redstart, reduced in size, from the coloured figure forming 
the subject of the fifteenth plate in the work of Dr. Schinz 
on the Eggs and Nests of the Birds of Switzerland and 
Germany, published at Zurich in 1819. 
