2 GULDEN STADT's REDSTART. 



Syhia erytJirogastra, Muhle; Monog. Europ. 



Sylviens. 



Motacilla erytlirogastra, Guldenstadt; Nov. 



Comment., Petr. 19, 

 1775, p. 469. 

 " auroreavar. ceraunia, Pallas; Zoog., 1, p. 478. 



Lusciola erytlirogastra, Schlegel. 



jRouge-queue de Guldenstddt, Of the Feench. 



Giildenstddfs RothscJiwanzcJien, Of the GtEEMans. 



Specific Characters. — The tail unicolorous rust red, except tlie 

 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 whicli the present is tlie first 

 notice, is one of great interest to all who take the 

 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 wood 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 

 Whitethroat, as flitting from branch to branch, or 

 winding her way like a snake through the dense fence, 

 she sought how often in vain to scare us from her 

 nest. Who does not remember the "Eenny Hed-tail," 

 and those old pollards in that quiet lane where the 

 half holidays of our youth were spent? or who will not 

 always think with a corresponding touch of melancholy. 



