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SYLVIA Phoenicurus. 
The Redstart . 
S. Phoenicurus. Front of the head white, chin and throat 
black, head and back bluish grey tinged with brown, 
breast, rump, and tail rufous. 
Sylvia Phoenicurus. Turt . Brit. Faun . v. 1 . p. 45. 
Bill black underneath, lighter at the base, above bluntly 
keeled. Iris dark hazel. Cheeks and throat black. Sides 
and belly of a rufous orange colour, whitish towards the 
tail. Quills brown with lighter margins. Tail rufous, 
except the two middle feathers, which are dark brown 
with rufous margins ; often moving up and down with a 
quick motion. Legs black in front, and pale behind. 
Female , chin whitish, back light brown, and the rufous 
colour less bright. 
Length five inches and a half; extent nine; weight about 
four drachms. 
This is a very elegant and interesting species, 
and a good songster ; its food is precisely the same 
as the last species ; in confinement it will sing by 
night as well as by day, if a light be kept in the 
room where it is ; it will soon get very tame and 
familiar in confinement, and will be much attached 
to the person that feeds it; if brought up from the 
nest, it may be learned to sing any tune that is 
whistled or sung to it. One that I was in possession 
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