104 AVES INSESSORES. [SYLVIA. 



DESCRIPT. (Male.) Head, and all the upper parts of the body, grayish 

 brown with a tinge of olive : forehead, cheeks, throat, and breast, bright 

 ferruginous red, edged round with ash-gray : belly white : greater and 

 middle wing-coverts sometimes tipped with pale reddish orange: irides 

 black: feet yellowish brown. (Female.) Upper parts cinereous brown; the 

 red on the breast not so bright, with the surrounding margin of ash-gray 

 less conspicuous. (Young of the year.) Upper parts olive-gray, speckled 

 with pale reddish spots : the breast faintly tinged with reddish yellow, 

 and marked with fine transverse streaks of olive-brown. (Egg.) Ground- 

 colour white, spotted with pale yellow brown: long. diam. nine lines 

 and a half; trans, diam. seven lines and a half. 



A common and generally diffused species. Frequents gardens and 

 woods. Feeds on insects and worms. In song nearly all the year. 

 Nest formed of moss, dead leaves, and stalks of plants, and lined with 

 hair ; placed on the ground, occasionally in the holes of trees and old 

 buildings. Has often two broods in the season, the first of which is 

 sometimes hatched as early as the end of March. Eggs five to seven in 

 number. 



(2. PIHENICURA, Swains.) 



45. S. Suecica, Lath. (Blue-throated Warbler.) 

 Upper parts ash-brown tinged with olive : throat, and 

 fore part of the neck blue, with a central white spot. 



S. Suecica, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 216. Blue-throated Warbler, 

 Lath. Syn. vol. n. p. 444. Blue-throated or Swedish Redbreast, 

 Shaw, Nat. Misc. vol. xvi. pi. 661. Blue-throated Redstart, 

 Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 195. pi. 100. f. 2, 3. 



DIMENS. Entire length five inches ten lines : length of the bill (from 

 the forehead) five lines and a half, (from the gape) nine lines ; of the 

 tarsus one inch and half a line ; of the tail two inches two lines ; from the 

 carpus to the end of the wing two inches eleven lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Adult male.) Upper parts brownish ash, tinged with 

 olive; a whitish streak above the eye; throat, and fore part of the 

 neck, bright azure, in the centre of which is a pure white spot, disap- 

 pearing in advanced age; beneath the blue a border of black, and be- 

 yond this a broader one of red : belly, thighs, and vent, white : basal half 

 of the tail rust-red, the remainder black ; the two middle feathers similar 

 to the back, and of one colour throughout. (Female.) Upper parts re- 

 sembling those of the male : throat, and fore part of the neck, white ; 

 upper part of the breast dusky, tinged with cinereous and azure, beneath 

 wnich is a faint indication of the transverse red band ; the rest of the 

 under parts dirty white. (Young.) Plumage brown, spotted with whitish ; 

 a large white space on the throat. (Egg.) Uniform greenish blue : long, 

 diam. eight lines ; trans, diam. five lines and a half. 



Extremely rare in this country. A single individual killed on New- 

 castle Town Moor, in May 1826, is now in the Museum at that place. Said 

 to reside in forests, and to breed in the holes of decayed trees. 



46. S. Phcenicurus, Lath. (Redstart.) Bluish gray 

 above : throat black ; breast, rump, and under tail-coverts, 

 red : second quill equal to the sixth. 



