tjo THE NATURAL HISTORY 
{hew all tliofe fymptoms of uneafinefs, which mi¬ 
gratory birds generally feel at that feafon. 
The Black Cap is found commonly in Italy and 
France, fometimes in England, and as far north 
as Sweden. 
The RED START. 
The head and back are of a bluifh giey; the checks and 
throat, black ; the flomach and tail red, except tbe two 
middle tail feathers, -which are brown. 
The fong of the Red Start has neither the 
compafs or the variety of the Nightingale’s, but 
it has an expreffion of tendernefs and melan¬ 
choly, which is exquifitely pleaftng ; for this 
reafon, and this only, it is called in France, 
the Nightingale of the Wall, for it has neither 
the form, nor the habits of the Nightingale, nor 
its plumage. 
The Red Start arrives in the fpring, perching 
upon towers, upon the roofs of houfes, and on 
chimnie's, from whence is heard his Toothing fong. 
He always fecks the mod inacceffible fituations; 
he is found too in the fhades of the gloomieft fo- 
refts ; he flies lightly, and when perched, has a 
little cry, which he repeats, moving his tail with 
a kind of trejuulous motion, not up and down, buj 
from one flde to the other, like a dog when it 
fawns. This bird prefers mountainous countries. 
They 
