When he is found west of the plains his tail is somewhat longer, and he is called the Long-tailed Chat.
Chiefly a Tree Trapper, but also a Seed Sower.
THE AMERICAN REDSTART "The Redstart is the dancing Warbler, just as the Chat is the joker.

He never flies along in a sober, earnest fashion, as if his business was of real importance.

When on the ground he skips and hops, then takes a few short steps and a little dance backward.

In the trees, where he also feeds and where in some crotch he lashes his pretty nest of leaf-stalks, moss, and horse-hair, he moves about as suddenly as can be imagined, and he has a way of flying up and backward at the same time that makes him a very confusing bird to watch.

In flitting among the branches, or darting into the air for gnats, his colors make him look like a tiny Oriole." "Oh, uncle! Uncle Roy!" cried Dodo, who had been looking along the path, "there are two of the dearest little birds down there, and one of them is red and black as you say the Redstart is, and the other is shaped like it but has brown and yellow feathers, and they move along as if the wind was blowing them!" [Illustration: American Redstart.1.Male.2.