by or orange, yellow. Young male :—Similar to female 
but usually darker or more grayish above, with yellow inclining 
more towards the orange red of adult male. Both the young 
males and females often with glossy black feathers interspersed 
through the plumage. 
Length 4,25 to 5: Wing 2.30 to 2.50: Tail 2.20 to 2.35: 
Habitat, Island of Dominica, especially near the western coast. 
As will be seen from the above description the Dominican 
Redstart differs from the N. A. type in its richer and darker 
colors, the larger areas of red, the pinkish color of lower parts 
and under tail cuverts and the frequently red neck and rump of 
adulf male. It is also smaller, more robust and with a wider 
and proportionately shorter bill than ruticilla. The note is 
quite distinct from ruticilla and the eggs average smaller with 
the ground color purer white and the markings heavier and 
darker, rich umber and blackish, than in the N.A. form of ruti- 
cilla. 
In connection with the above description the following note 
by Dr, H. A. Alford Nicholls will be of interest :— 
“JT have noticed two varieties of the Redstart for a number 
of years past and they are doubtless the true American Redstart 
and the one you describe as indigenous. ‘he American Red: 
start has been observed by me on two occasions to arrive in 
flocks. On one occasion a flock of from 30 to 40 of these birds 
stayed in my garden in Roseau for a whole day and they entire- 
ly cleared away a scale insect that was then badly infesting my 
Rubiaceous plants.” 
