MU8CICAPA RUTICILLA. 
REDSTART. 
[Plate XLV. — Fig. 2. Young Bird.] 
The male'of this species may be seen in his perfect dress, in 
plate 6; the present figure represents the young bird as he 
appears for the first two seasons; the female differs very little 
from this, chiefly in the green olive; being more inclined to 
ash. 
This is one of our summer birds, and from the circumstance 
of being found off Hispaniola in November, is supposed to win- 
ter in the islands. They leave Pennsylvania about tbe twentieth 
of September; are dexterous flycatchers, though ranked by Eu- 
ropean naturalists among tbe warblers, having the bill notched 
and beset with long bristles. 
In its present dress tbe Redstart makes its appearance in 
Pennsylvania about the middle or twentieth of April ; and from 
being heard chanting its few sprightly notes has been supposed 
by some of our own naturalists to be a different species. I have, 
however, found both parents of the same nest in the same dress 
nearly; the female, eggs and nest, as well as the notes of the 
male, agreeing exactly with those of the Redstart; evidence suf- 
ficiently satisfactory to me. 
Head above dull slate; throat pale buff; sides of the breast 
and four exterior tail feathers fine yellow, tipt with dark brown; 
wings and back greenish olive; tail coverts blackish, tipt with 
ash; belly dull white; no white or yellow on the wings; legs 
dirty purplish brown; bill black. 
The Redstart extends very generally over the United States; 
having myself seen it on the borders of Canada, and also in the 
Mississippi territory. 
