ARCTIC BLUE-THROATED ROBIN. 269 
ERITHACUS SUECICA* (Brehm, nec Temminck). 
ARCTIC BLUE-THROATED ROBIN. 
(PLatE 9.) 
Motacilla suecica, Zinn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 836 (1766, partim); et auctorum pluri- 
morum—(Selby), (Brehm), (Blyth), (Gould), (Sundevall), (Jerdon), (Newton), 
(Dresser), &e. 
Ficedula suecica (Linn.), Bote, Isis, 1822, p. 553 (partim). 
Motacilla cerulecula, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i, p. 480 (1826). 
Curruca suecica (Linn.), Selby, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumb. i. p. 255 (1831). 
Cyanecula suecica (Linn.), Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 350 (1831). 
Pheenicura suecica (Linn.), Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1832, p. 92. 
Pandicilla suecica (Linn.), Blyth, Field Naturalist, i. p. 291 (1833). 
Ruticilla cyanecula (Wolf), apud Macgill. Br. B. ii. p. 300 (1839). 
Lusciola suecica (Linn.), Keys. u, Blas. Wirb. Eur. pp. lviii, 190 (1840, partim). 
Cyanecula fastuosa, Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 226. 
Sylvia suecica (Linn.), Nordm. Démid. Voy. Russ. mérid. iii. p. 1385 (1840). 
Sylvia cyane (Pall.), apud Eversm, Add. Pall. Zoogr, Rosso-Asiat. fase. ii. p. 12 
(1841). 
Pheenicura suecoides, Hodgs. MS. Drawings (in the Brit. Mus.) of B. of Nepal, Passeres, 
pl. xci. no. 705, undé 
Calliope suecioides, Hodgs. Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844). 
Cyanecula suecioides, Hodgs. Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844). 
Erithacus suecica (Zinn.), Degl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 518 (1849). 
Sylvia ceruligula, Pall. fide Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 167 (1849). 
Cyanecula ceerulecula (Pall.), Bonap. Consp. i. p. 296 (1850). 
Cyanecula dichrosterna (Pall.), fide Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 1 (1850). 
Sylvia (Cyanecula) suecica (Linn.), var. cerulecula (Paill.), Middend. Reis. Sibir. 
Zool, ii. pt. 2, p. 177 (1853). 
Niltava fastuosa (Less.), Bonap. Compt. Rend. xxxviii. p. 34 (1854). 
Cyanecula cyane (Lversm.), Bonap. Cat. Parzud. p. 5 (1856). 
* The earlier ornithologists did not distinguish between the Bluethroat with a white 
spot on the blue throat, and the Bluethroat with a chestnut spot on the blue throat. 
Some of them applied the specific name swecica to one species, and some of them to the 
other, whilst a few applied it indifferently to both species. It seems probable that the 
name was more or less misapplied by Linneus, Gmelin, Bechstein, Latham, Temminck, 
Vieillot, Naumann, Koch, Boie, Gould, Keyserling, Blasius, Gray, Bonaparte, Cabanis, 
Degland, Gerbe, Loche, and some others, Ornithological blunders are soon forgotten ; 
but to avoid the possibility of mistake, it is wisest for the present either to adopt Pallas’s 
name, which, so far as I know, has never been misapplied, or to append an authority to 
the name which clearly denotes the species intended to be discriminated. It appears that 
Brehm was the first to distinguish between the two species ; but we cannot give him much 
credit for doing so, because he was not content to make two species, but must needs split 
them into five. Of the ornithologists who have misapplied the name, perhaps Temminck 
is the earliest who applied it only to the wrong species. 
