G U I. D E N S T A DT ’ S REDSTART. 
Sj/lvia erythroijastra, 
Motacilla erijthrocjastnx, 
“ aurorea var. ceraiinia, 
Lusciula erytlirogastra, 
Rouge-queue de Giildenstddt, 
Guldenstddt' s Jiothschwdnzchen, 
Muhle; ]\Ionog. Europ. 
Sylviens. 
Gdldenstadt; Nov. 
Comment., Petr. 19, 
1775, p. 4G9. 
Paelas; Zoog., 1, p. 478. 
SciILEGEL. 
Of the Feench. 
Of the Germans. 
Specific Characters. — The tail unicoloroiis rust red, except the 
two middle feathers, which are brownish red; a white mirror from 
the third to the tenth primary. Length from the tip of the 
beak to the end of the tail seven inches. Length of wings 
four inches one line and a half, of tarsi one inch two lines, 
of middle toe eight lines, of hind toe five lines. 
The group of birds of wliicli tlie present is tbe first 
notice, is one of great interest to all wlio take tlie 
slightest pleasure in natural history. It contains all 
our summer Warblers — those harbingers of coming spring, 
which greet us with their merry or plaintive notes, 
or, as in the Nightingale, waken up the stillness of 
night with that full, rich, and beautiful song, which is 
unequalled by any music in the world. In all our 
summer walks or rides, however cultivated or barren 
the scenery, by A\nod or river, mountain or lake, we 
are sure either to see or hear some member of the family. 
We associate with our earliest days the croak of the 
AVhitethroat, as flitting from branch to branch, or 
winding her way like a snake through the dense fence, 
she sought hovr often in vain to scare us from her 
nest. Who does not remember the “Renny Red-tail,” 
and those old pollards in that quiet lane Avhere the 
half-holidays of our youth were spent? or who will not 
always think with a corresponding touch of melancholy. 
