300 TFRDID^. 



La Gorge-rouge, Dauhent. PL Enl. no. 361. fig. 1 (1778). 



Redbreast, ictj'/f. Gen. Si/n. ii. p. 442(1783). 



Ei-ythacus, Cuvier, Leqons Anat. C'omp. tab. ii. (1801). 



Curruca rubecola (Linn.), Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. Sfc. Brit. Mus. 



p. 2.5 (1816). 



Curruca rubeeula, Forst. Syn. Cat. Brit. B. p. 54 (1817). 



Fieedula rubeeula (Linn.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 553. 



Dandalus rubeeula (Linn.), Bote, Isis, 1826, p. 972. 



Dandalus pinetorum, 1 



Daudalus tbliorum, V Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 1280. 



Dandalus septentiionalis, ] 



Tlnheciila. ■pinetorum. (BreJun), } -r, 7 jr- 7-1 ^ 77 „ qpa 



■D 1 1 i- V , -D 1 \ I Brehm, \ on. JJeMtschl. m>. 6W, 



Kubecma loliorum (i;/Wi«i), V .^^-. (■to.yy\ 



Rubeeula septentrioualis (Brehm), \ \ ' )• 



Erytbacus rubeeula (Linn.), Swains.* Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, p. 488 

 (1831) ; Gould*, B. Eur. ii. p. 98 (18.37) ; Biipp. Syst. Uehers. p. 57 

 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 182 (1846) ; Deql Orn. Fur. i. p. 509 

 (1849); Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 1 (1850) ; ^ Heuyl. Si/st. Uebers. 

 p. 25 (1856) ; Neict. List B. Eur. Blasius, p. 10 (1862) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 223. no. 3193 (1869); Heugl. Orn. K.O.-Afr. i. 

 p. 335 (1869) ; Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. II8 (1869) ; Drosie, Vogelw. 

 Borkian, p. 95 (1869) ; Godman, Azores, p. 23 (1870) ; Salvad. 

 Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 94 (1871) ; Neivt.\ ed. Yarr. Br. B. i. p. 305 

 (1872); Gould, B. Gt. Brit. ii. pi. 48 (1872) ; Shellei/-f, B. Egypt, 

 p. 87(1872): Hartinq*, Handb. Br. B. p. 12 (1872); Bresser\, 

 B. Eur. pt. xxiv. (1873) ; Irby, B. Gibr. p. 83 (1875) ; Dresser\, 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 342 ; Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 159 (1876). 



Rubeeula familiaris, Bhjth, Field Naturalist, i. p. 424 (183-3) ; Jaid). 

 et Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. p. 233 (18-59) ; Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. 

 Eur. i. p. 429 (1867) ; Loehe, Expl. Sci. Alger., Ois. i. p. 224 (1867). 



Rbondella rubeeula (Linn.), Rennie, White's Selborne, p. 437 (1833). 



Lusciola rubeeula (Linn.), Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. pp. Iviii, 191 

 (1840) : <S'c7//. Rev. Crit. p. xxxii (1844) ; Linderm. Tog. Griechenl. 

 p. 104 (1860) ; Fntsch, Vog. Eur. p. 183 (1870) ; Severtz. Turkest. 

 Jevotn. p. G6 (1873). 



Rubeeula rubeeula (Linn.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 295 (1850). 



Luscinia rubeeula (Linn.), Sundev. Sv. Fogl. p. 56 (1856). 



Forehead, lores, ear-coverts, cbin, throat, and breast bright 

 orange-chestnut ; general colour of the rest of the ijluraage olive- 

 brown, with a few grey feathers on the crown next the forehead 

 and on the sides of the neck, and shading into nearly white on the 

 centre of the belly ; axillaries brownish white, with concealed dusky 

 bases ; under wing-coverts mixed orange-chestnut and pale chest- 

 nut : under tail-coverts white, more or less tinged with brown ; 

 greater wing-coverts with indistinct pale chestnut tips. Bill dark 

 brown, paler at the base of the under mandible. Wing with the 

 fourth and fifth primaries nearly equal and longest, second primarj' 

 equal to the eighth or ninth, bastard primary 0-92 to 0"S inch. 

 Legs, feet, and claws brown. Length of wing 2-9 to 2-6 inches, 

 tail 2-5 to 2-2, culmen 0-55 to 0-5, tarsus 1-1 to 0-98. 



There does not appear to be any difference in the plumage of the 

 sexes. After the autumn moult the colour of the breast is richer, 



* Spelt Erythaca. t Spelt Erithacus. 



