CYANECITLA. 



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are of a pale greenish white, thicldy spotted and mottled with 

 more or less dull and dingy chestnut-brown and lavender but 

 little ground-colour being visible in some specimens; the markings 

 often collect into a confluent cap at the broad end. They mea ^e 

 from -bt, to -8 in length, and from -54 to -61 in breadth. 



6. Himalayas Hume Coll. 



2. Dharmsala, Himalayas, 20th May. Hume Coll. 



'• '''Stir- ""'''''■' ^''''- ^^°-^^^ ^^^-^*- 



4.- KSu\":7tSf'^"^-^*^^^^^'- j-g-LaTouche,Esq.[P.]. 



1. Kuatun, 20th April (J. D. LaT.). C B rILT e1 rl^ t^"^- 



3. Kuatun, 21st April (J. B. LaT.). C B R S' P^" dI 



4. Kuatun, 22nd aVu (/. D. La T.. C. B R ke ' S' P " 



2. Kuatun, 20th May (J. L>. LaT ) C b" P^l // ^^' ^^\ 



'■ ToT' "r. tf- * ^' ''■>■ c: b: St Si ?■ • 



-!. l^oochow, .h'd May. p n t>„i t^J t^^ \-f.'4' 



2. Fohkien Province; May. Sowle'^'ttueS.^- f^"^" 



Genus CYANECULA, Brehm. 

 Cyanecula suecica (Linn.). 



Sylvia^suecica, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. For/, tab. xxii. tin-. 7 a-c (1845 51) ■ 

 Wheehcrujht, Spring ^- Summer in Lapl. p. oge ^lS7l^ ^^^■^~^^) ' 



Cyauecula suecica Baedeker, Eier Eur. h/ tah. 27. J'? (1855 6S^ • 

 ff.''-]'nBu-dsEur.u. p. .317 (1874) ,- ^.,6o/,,„ ^rJIanieSfofl' 

 Ibu, l&.b^ p. 125 ; Oat_es, Fauna Brit, 'ind., Birds ii p 99 ri890 • 

 Sharj)e, Hand-l. iv. p. 153 (1903) ^ l-ioyuj ; 



Phcemcura^suecica, Hetoitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 102, pi. xxix. 



Erithncus cieruleculus, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. y. p 308 nSRlV 

 ^Sehrk.Rat.Eiersamml. p. .39 (1899) ^- v. p. ovo (1681); 



Eritbacus suecica, -S'eeSo/^m, i/n;;. ^2V(^s, i. p 209 „] q nss-n •, ^ 

 <i/^..^. Birds, p. 184, pi. 51. figs. 6 &? (1896?. ^ ^^^^^^ ' '^- ^^^^ 



The eggs of the Red-spotted Blue-throat may be described is 

 small forms of the bluish-green type of those of the /ig! iulle 

 The ground-colour is greenish blue, frequently with a d, loliv; 

 tinge, and while some specimens are nearty uniformly of tWcoW 

 the majority are distinctly speckled with rufous. ^They measro 

 from -60 to -8 in length, and from -55 to -57 in breadth ^ 



'• '"SSL^^?S? ^'- '''"''■■ Crowley Bequest. 



2. Stockholm June (r;v,<,-«,« Co/A). Crowley Bequest 

 ^ (M-SeehohmSrJ.A.Harvie-Brmvn). 



