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AMERICAN REDSTART. 
black, broadly skirted with tbe same blue ; tail, black, exte- 
riorly edged with blue; bill, black above, whitish below, 
somewhat larger in proportion than Finches of the same size 
usually are, but less than those of the genus Emberiza , with 
which Mr Pennant has classed it, though I think, improperly, 
as the bird has much more of the form and manners of the 
genus Fringilla , where I must be permitted to place it ; legs 
and feet, blackish brown. The female is of a light flaxen 
colour, with the wings dusky black, and the cheeks, breast, 
and whole lower parts, a clay colour, with streaks of a darker 
colour under the wings, and tinged in several places with 
bluish. Towards fall, the male, while moulting, becomes 
nearly of the colour of the female, and in one which I kept 
through the winter, the rich plumage did not return for 
more than two months ; though I doubt not, had the bird 
enjoyed his liberty and natural food under a warm sun, this 
brownness would have been of shorter duration. The usual 
food of this species is insects and various kinds of seeds. 
AMERICAN REDSTART MUSCICAPA RUTICILLA. 
Plate VI. Fig. 6. 
Muscicapa ruticilla, Lynn. S yst. i. 236, 10 — Gmel. Syst. i. 935. — Motacilla flavicauda, j; 
Gmel. Syst. i. 997, (female.) — Le gobe-mouche d’Amerique, Eriss. Orn. ii. 383 ^ j 
14. Pl. enl. 566, fig. 1, 2. — Small American Redstart, Edw. 80. Id. 257, (female.) j 
Yellow-tailed Warbler, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 301. Id. ii. No. 282. — Lath. Syn. iv. j| 
427, 18. — Arct. Zool. ii. No. 301, (female.) — P cole's Museum, No. 6658. 
SETOPHAGA R UTICILLA. — S wainson. * 
Muscicapa ruticilla, Eonap. Synop. p. 68. — Setopliaga ruticilla, North. Zool. ii. 223. I| 
Setopbaga, Swain. N. Groups, Zool. Journ. Sept. 1827, p. 360. 
Though this bird has been classed by several of our most 
respectable ornithologists among the Warblers, yet in no species 
* This bird forms the type of Setophaga, Swainson ; a genus formed of a 
few species belonging entirely to the New World, and intimately connected 
with the fan-tailed Flycatchers of Australia, the Rhippidurce of Vigors and 
Horsfield. 
The young bird is figured on Plate XLV. Fig. 2. of Vol. II Ed. 
