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MUSCICAPA EUTICILLA. 
it. This bird is too little known by people in gene' 
to have any provincial name. 
80. MCSCICJPA SOTICILIA, KEDSTAET. 
WILSON, PLATE XLV. FIG. IL — VOUNG BIBD. 
The male of this species has just been describ®*^,' 
the present is the young bird as he appears for the 
two seasons : the female differs very little from it, ^ 
chiefly in the green olive being more inclined to ask. 
This is one of our summer birds, and, from the ‘•’J 
cumstance of being found off Hispaniola in Novenib^ 
is supposed to winter in the islands. They leave Pe'’J 
^Ivania about the 20th of September; are dexterf' 
flycatchers, though ranked by European natura^ 
among the warblers, having the bill notched and 
with long bristles. 
In its present dress the redstart makes its appearalf 
in Pennsylvania about the middle or 20th of Ap**. 
and, from being heard chanting its few sprightly no‘^ 
has been supposed by some of onr own naturalist J 
be a dilferent species. I have, however, found 
parents of the same nest in the same dress nearly! 
female, eggs and nest, as well as the notes of the 
agi-ccing exactly with those of the redstart ; evid*”' 
sufficiently satisfactory to me. ; 
Head above, dull slate; throat, pale buff; side^j 
the breast and four exterior tail feathers, fine yeU*',, 
tipt with dark brown ; wings and back, gi’eenish ok, 
tail-coyerts, blackish, tipt with ash ; belly, dull 
no white or yellow on the wings ; legs, drrty purp^ 
brown ; bill, black. , ^ 
The redstart extends very generally over the Uk’u 
States ; having myself seen it on the borders of 
and also in the Mississippi territory. p 
This species has the constant habit of flirting' jp 
expanded tail from side to side, as it runs aloH^ ^ 
branches, with its head leveEcd almost in a line " \ 
its body; occasionally shooting off after winged 
