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with a large chestnut spot in the centre of the lower throat ; below 

 the blue a band of black, and below that a band of chestnut occu- 

 pying the lower breast ; the rest of tlie underparts, including the 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts, huffish white. Bill black ; rictal 

 bristles very small. Wings with the third, fourth, and fifth pri- 

 maries nearly equal and longest, second primary about equal to 

 the sixth, bastard primary 0"8 to 0'65 inch ; outside tail-feathers 

 0*2 inch shorter than the longest. Legs, feet, and claws dark browji. 

 Length of wing 3-2 to 2"8 inches, tail 2-4 to 2-1, culmen 0'6 to 0-55, 

 tarsus I'l to 1-05. 



The female differs from the male in having the whole of the 

 underparts huffish white, the cheeks continued in a band across 

 the breast being dark brown. Old females have occasionally some 

 of the blue and chestnut markings of the male. After the autumn 

 moult the feathers of the chin, throat, and breast have white 

 margins, which are cast in spring. Males of the year resemble the 

 female. Young in first plumage have all the small feathers nearly 

 black with pale chestnut centres, Avhich are palest and most predo- 

 minant on the belly ; the wing-coverts and innermost secondaries 

 have broad pale chestnut margins and tips, and the upper tail- 

 coverts are chestnut. 



The Arctic Elue-throated Robin breeds within the Arctic Circle, 

 or in the birch-regions at high elevations of more southerly climes, 

 in both Europe and Asia, in the latter continent as far south as 

 Northern Cashmere, occasionally crossing Bchring's Straits into 

 Alaska. It winters in North Africa as far south as Abyssinia, and 

 in India and South China. 



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Rodo, Noi'wav, June 1857 



{F. G.). 

 S. Norway, July 1860 (J. 



Baker). 

 Tromsci, Norwav, June 13, 



1874. 

 retchora river (J. A. H. 



£.). 



Heligoland. 



Heligoland. 



Minieh, Egypt, March 1, 

 1875. 



Egypt. 



Egypt (Dr. Christie). 



Abyssinia. 



Persia. 



Bahu Kalat, Persian Ba- 

 luchistan, Feb. 3, 1872. 



Afghanistan (Griffith). 



Valley of Asfor, Cash- 

 more, 8000 feet. 

 N. VV. Himalayas. 



Dinapore. 



F. Godman and 0. S.alvin, 

 Esqrs. [P.]. 



F. Godman and 0. Salvin, 

 Esqrs. [P.]. 



Henry Seebolim,Esq.[P.]. 



Captain Feilden and J. 



A. Harvie Brown, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Henry Seebohm,Esq.[P.]. 

 HenrySeebohm,Esq.[P.]. 

 J. H. Gurney, Esq. [P.]. 



J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



G. Turnbidl, Esq. [P.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 

 W.T.Blanford,Esq.[C.]. 



India Museum. 



n. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 

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