THE BLUE-THROATED WARBLER 



Cyanecula suecica 



Plumage of back and top of head dull grey-brown; a 

 light hurt* stripe above eye; throat and breast brilliant 

 cobalt-blue, with a white spot at the top of breast, a bright 

 rufous bar edges the blue on the lower breast, this red bar 

 sometimes being separated from the blue by a thin white 

 stripe ; under-parts white. The hen bird is a dull edition of 

 the above, with a buffish-coloured throat, and more black 

 than blue showing on the breast; legs, beak, and eyes 

 brown. Total length, 5*5 inches. 



This is a common bird throughout Egypt, where 

 it winters. It is related to our common Robin, 

 to which it bears some resemblance ; but it is 

 rather longer in shape and higher on the leg than 

 the Redbreast. 



The Bluethroat is well named, and having 

 once seen this charming little warbler, it is by- 

 its blue throat it will be remembered. The first 

 time I came across this bird was long ago ; 

 but I remember, as if it were to-day, my delight 

 when the little bird, which had been flitting about 

 — now on the ground, now in the lower branches 

 and twigs of a bushy osier — turned so that I saw 



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