SYLVIADA. 83 
The food of the Bluethroated Warbler appears 
to consist principally of earth-worms, insects and 
berries. It appears to be fond of swampy ground, 
woody borders of boggy heaths, and the banks of 
streams:* in such situations the nest is usually 
placed on the ground, amongst plants of bog myrtle, 
in places overgrown with coarse grass, on the sides 
of sloping banks, and in the bottom of stubs and 
scrubby brushwood in wet situations: it is com- 
posed of dead grass and moss, and lined with finer 
grass. 
Captain Hadfield considers this bird to be smaller 
than the Robin, which bird he says it much resembles 
in many ways. Yarrell, however, seems to think it 
larger, the respective lengths, according to him, being 
that of the present species six inches, that of the 
Robin five inches and three-quarters. 
The following descriptions are taken partly from 
Yarrell and partly from Captain Hadfield’s notes, 
before mentioned :—‘ The beak and inides are dark 
brown; over the eye is a pale streak; the top of the 
head, all the upper surface of the body and wings, 
uniform clove-brown; outer edges of the wing- 
feathers lighter brown; the two middle tail-feathers 
clove-brown throughout their whole length; all the 
other tail-feathers have the basal half pale chestnut, 
* See Yarrell, vol. i., p. 266; also Captain Hadfield's 
notes. 
