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SAXICOLIN^. RUTICILLA. 
75. HuTiciLLA Ph(enicurus. White-fronted Redstart. 
Male with the middle of the forehead white, its anterior 
part, the cheeks, and throat, black ; the hind-head, neck, and 
back deep ash-grey ; the breast, rump, and tail reddish-orange. 
Female with the upper parts reddish-grey, the throat reddish- 
white, the breast, rump, and tail reddish- orange. Young with 
the upper parts brownish-grey, the forehead without white, the 
throat lunulated with white, the red of the fore neck and 
breast similarly variegated. 
Male, 5^, 9^^, 3j^, Female, 5y^^, 9y^^. 
This species bears a considerable resemblance to the White- 
rumped Stonechat, in form, colour, and habits. It arrives from 
the middle to the end of April, and departs in October. Ge- 
nerally assuming a station on a stone or twig, and jerking out 
its tail at intervals, it sallies forth in pursuit of insects, in the 
manner of several other Saxicolinse and of the Flycatchers. 
It is very partial to walls, and frequently places its nest in a 
hole, or chink of one, but sometimes in the hole of a tree. It 
is composed of fibrous roots and moss, and is plentifully lined 
with hair. The eggs, six or seven, are of a light greenish- 
blue colour, scarcely distinguishable from those of the Hedge 
Chanter, although somewhat smaller, their length being nine- 
twelfths, their breadth six-twelfths. The Redstart is exten- 
sively distributed in Britain and Ireland. 
Redstart. Redtail. Firetail. 
Motacilla Phoenicurus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 335. — Sylvia 
Phoenicurus, Temm, Man. d’Ornith. i. 220. — Ruticilla Phceni- 
curus. White-fronted Redstart, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, ii. 
305. 
76. Ruticilla Tithys. Black-breasted Redstart. 
Male with the upper parts greyish-blue ; the throat and 
breast black, the rump and tail coverts brownish-red ; the tail 
light red. Female greyish-brown above, light grey beneath, 
the rump reddish-brown, the tail brownish-red. 
Male, 6, . ., 3y%, y^^, 1, y^.^ Female, 5|. 
Individuals have been killed in various parts of England : 
one at Kilburn, in October 1829 ; one near Bristol, in the 
summer of 1830 ; another in the same vicinity, in December 
1835 ; one at Brighton ; and one at Teignmouth in Devon- 
shire. 
Black Redstart. Black Redtail. 
Sylvia Tithys, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 512. — Sylvia Tithys, 
Temm. Man. d’Ornith. i. 218. — Ruticilla Tithys, Black- 
breasted Redstart, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, ii. 311. 
