REDSTART. 
SETOPHAGA RUTICILLA. 
ARE is the bird in our woods as dashing as the 
‘Yedstart. As he runs rapidly along the limbs 
or makes his short flights in pursuit of insects, he is 
perpetually spreading his gayly painted tail, shooting 
flashes of fire among the green leaves. If proud of 
his plumage, he seems equally proud of his song, brief 
and monotonous as it is, and borrowed (perhaps) from 
his cousin, the yellow warbler: — 
