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RUTICILLA CYANECULA. THE BLUE-THROATED 

 REDSTART. 



Fig. 167. 



Motacilla suecica. Linu. Syst. Nat. I. 336. 



Motacilla suecica. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 521. 



Bee-fin Gorge-bleue. Sylvia suecica. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 216. 



Blue-throated Redstart. Phcenicura suecica. Selb. Illustr. I. 195. 



Sylvia suecica. Blue-throated Warbler. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 104. 



Male with the tipper parts wood-brown ; the fore-neck and 

 breast tcith patches of ultramarine blue and light-red ; the tail 

 light-red, toicards the end brotcnish-black. Female with the 

 upper parts as in the male ,• the throat blue, with a curved 

 blackish line. 



Male. — The Blue-throated Redstart, which has a very 

 slender claim for admittance into the British Fauna, is some- 

 what larger than the White-fronted species, which it resem- 

 bles in form, and so far in colour as to have a portion of the 

 tail red. It is altogether, however, more slender, its head 

 more inclining to oblong, its bill rather short, straight, much 

 compressed towards the end, the point of the upper mandible 

 very slightly deflected, the notch obsolete. The feet are very 

 slender ; the tarsus rather long, much compressed, anteriorly 

 covered with a long plate and three inferior scutella ; the toes 

 of moderate length, extremely slender, the first with ten, the 



