RARER BRITISH BIRDS. 
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BLACK REDSTART. 
Ficedula Tithys. Scopoli. 
This Redstart inhabits chiefly the warmer parts of Europe; 
is found in Italy, and, according to Temminck, usually on stony 
places, rarely on the plains ; and is very rare in Holland. 
The male bird is cinereous on the crown and back, with a 
band of black across the shoulders ; chin, and upper part of the 
breast, black, the lower part having the feathers tipped with 
cinereous ; between the thighs, white, thighs, black ; two middle 
tail feathers, dark brown, the outer webs towards the base edged 
with orange red ; remaining tail feathers, rump, and vent, 
orange red ; outer web of the secondaries, edged with white. 
The female is entirely of a brownish ash, with a white patch 
between the thighs ; tail and vent as in the male, but not of 
so bright a colour; irides, dark hazel. 
Mr. Gould, in the “ Zoological Journal,” vol. v. number 17, 
page 102, records two specimens of this bird, both males, one 
shot near Bristol, the other near Brighton. In his work on 
