Clafs II. REDSTART. 259 



C{ ciente, quam cantu. Meditantur aliae juniores, 

 " verfufque quos imiten^ur accipiunt. Audit difci- 

 " pula intentione magna & reddit, vicibufque reti- 

 " cent. Intelligitur emendate correctio & in docente 

 *' quasdam reprehenfio *." 



II. The REDSTART. 



LeRoflignol de Muraille. Belon Culo ranzo, Culo roffo. Zinan. 



an). 347. _ 53- 



Ruticilla, five Phcenicurus (Som- Motacilla Phcenjcurus. Lin.fyft. 



merotele) Gefner ay. 731. 335. 



/Mr. a<y. ii. 327. Rodftjert. Faun. Suec./p. 257. 



Codoroflb. Qlina 47. Norvegis Blod-fugl. Danis Roed- 

 Wil. orn. 218. ftiert. Brunnicb 280. 



Raii fyn. a-u. 78. Waldrothfchweiffl. Kram. 376. 



Ruticilla. Brijfon a<v. iii. 403. Z?/\ ZW. 99. plate S. f. 6. 7. 



THIS alfo appears among us only in the fpring 

 and fummer, and is obferved to come over 

 nearly at the fame time with the nightingale. It 

 makes its neft in hollow trees, and holes in walls and 

 other buildings ; which it forms with mofs on the 

 ontfide, and lines with hair and feathers. It lays 

 four or five eggs, very like thofe of the hedge-fparrow; 

 but rather paler, and more taper at the lefs end. 

 This bird is fo remarkably fhy, that it will forfake its 

 neft, if the eggs are only touched. It has a very fine 

 foft note ; but being a fullen bird, is with difficulty 

 kept alive in confinement. 



The bill and legs of the male are black : the fore- Defer, 

 head white : the crown of the head, hind part of the 



* Plin. lib. 1 o. c. 29-. 



neck, 



