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«UTICJLLA PHtENICURA
Redstart.
Phoenicwi
rusjLina. Sv I. Natl, tom. i. p. 335.
, Lath. l«d. f trn., vi l; si. p. 511.
i, sjnuus ad t llici. Faun. Bor.-Am. Bird
Ruticilla phar.icura. Bonap Cj sp. C - j:i. Av, torn. i. p. 296, Ruticiila, ap. 1.
Erithacus phcenievrux, D e« i 0 i. E u r ., tom. i. p . 5 0 2 .
W h a t handsome littfe bird: u
little active creature ’.«■ obaj
What’bird, with a t/emblingj
one o f our spring! migrant.«
Portugal to spend j he sumu
to its appointed t-i tie ; for,, \
where they have y seriously! r
surprises us. Wi th a knoy t
meat to our gro ■ • ■ whif
primrose ? o r v a l •
bin! in »any . f ,W M
ship. As the kj uwhm Stl <n
that »*! see in the sunny orchard when the apple is in blossom ? What is the
we descending to the ground from the pollard in the shady part of the lane ?
iery-nd tail, is that-seen in the trim garden o f the palace ? I t is the Redstart,
which has lately crossed the Mediterranean, and passed through Spain and
r in England and Scotland, but not in Ireland. No comet was ever more true
unmolested, the same individuals return year after year to the identical spot
•ed and reared their young, and again retire with a degree of regularity which
akl we not afford every protection to so pleasing an oma-
- -should we not cherish it as we do the cowslip and the
I o r a Boll (inch ? Yet this is not done; and the
■ and distro&tfui, from a want o f confidence in our friend-
does the male Redstart keep aloof from our
kW uuy dress will attract oar attention, to bis own
ilge of this ft
t remains wil
ifv as we do -
That the tty ,t
smaller birds I ti
places it freqtf o
village lane, aI Im
upright hoard op
familiarity stil oi
house, beloni ins
contrivance f *<
the working?
whose shoulf
disturbing i -r
strange p la t: oi
the Rev. F I 0 .
its nest m{ % w
known a ni a ’
was hung, | he
was open) 1
was to all d
be undisfti M ,
for sixtcei Mia
Mr. Weiit infon
tages belt iging
hole in til * gabl
and reari 1 then
1837, alt lOttgh
more cloi
mg to th<
r opening
if the why:
irs, from j i
i d only-a
is very fa
I be rrtH irrd tame and iaiiultar there- o n hr riitk- doubt; for no one o f the
*o near to our dwellings for the p r p n w o f breeding. Strange indeed are the
* as a depository for its nest, la rive forest it is a small hole in a tre e ; in the
*B a pollard oak : in the garden, ■'lie cankered apple-branch, or between the
tool-house. These, however, are not the only places; for the bird courts our
‘iy. In 186 2 1 was shown a nest in the small square space in the wall o f a forcing-
Duchess o f Sutherland, a t Cliveden, which contained the cogged wheels o f the
and shutting the lights; and there the bird continued to sit on her eggs, neither
Is nor the presence of those who had occasion to pass through the house, and
e narrowness of the space, must frequently have been within six inches of the nest,
y during the fortnight she was engaged in the task of incubation. A still more
»a» also seen a t Cliveden—the midst o f a box o f croquet-balfe in the orangery. In
History of British Birds,’ we are told that a Redstart has been known to place
v-; :>-.hei* in an inverted flower-pot; and Bishop Stanley tn ru to n that he M
the «pace between the gudgeons o r narrow upright tenet on wWh a garden-door
tht ?.H‘st resting on the iron hinge j it must have been shaken e v sn time the door
continual
it will be
Mid that,