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SYLVIAD.E. 
INSESSORES. 
DENTIROSTRES. SYL VIADM. 
PLATE LIX. 
REDSTART. 
PhCENICURA RUTICILLA. (SwAINS.) 
This lively and graceful little bird and its congener, 
usually known by the name of Tithy’s Redstart, are the 
only two of the genus Phcenicura known in England. They 
differ much in manners and habits from the members of 
the Sylviadce that precede and follow them, principally in 
the localities chosen in which to rear their young, and in 
their actions. But in these particulars in which they differ 
from other birds they strikingly resemble each other. 
The species under present consideration arrives in England 
about the middle of April, rather later than the nightingale. 
On their first arrival they may be heard singing their brisk 
and lively song of invitation to their expected mates, but 
after a few days, or perhaps weeks, thus spent, they apply 
themselves to the more important duties of the season, 
namely, the construction of their warm and sheltered nests, 
and the care of their rising offspring. It can hardly be 
said that the Redstart confines itself to localities distin¬ 
guished by any particular feature; they are neither strictly 
sylvan, like the nightingale, nor aquatic, like the blue- 
throated warbler, nor altogether delighting in rocks and build¬ 
ings ; but they appear rather like the redbreast, able to 
accommodate themselves to all these circumstances, and to 
