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BLACKSTART. 
RLACK REDSTART. BLACK RED-TAIL. TITHYS REDSTART. 
Sylvia Tithys, JENYNS. 
“  Gibraltariensis, LATHAM. 
Phenicura Tithys, GouLp. SELBY. 
Ficedula Tithys, EY TON. 
Motacilla atrata, 
Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. Pithys—.....0.cceee 
THIS species is rather common in the southern parts of 
Europe, Germany. Thuringia, France, Greece, Spain, Switzer- 
land, and Italy, but very rare in the more northern parts, 
in Sweden, namely, and also in Holland, the character of the 
latter country bemg of course unsuited to its Alpine habits 
—the very Antipodes of them. The Prince of Musignano 
obtained one at sea in the spring of 1828, four hundred miles 
to the west of Afzica, during a gale from the eastward: it 
was caught, together with some other small birds, in the 
rigging of the ship. The Blackstart has been met with also 
in Asia. 
This very neat and elegant bird, first made known as a 
British one by Mr. Gould, is but of rare occurrence also, 
generally speaking, in this country. JI am much obliged and 
indebted to John Gatcombe, Esq., of Wyndham Place, Ply- 
mouth, for a highly-finished drawing of the male and female, 
the latter the first mature one as yet depicted, and from 
which the plate is taken. _In Yorkshire, two or three are 
stated by Mr. Allis, on the authority of Mr. H. Denny, to 
have been caught by some bird-catchers at Osmondthorpe. 
The earliest recorded one, before alluded to, was captured 
at Kilburn, near London, im the month of October, 1829, 
aad another has since been observed in the Regent’s Park. 
