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lat. I liavo twice killed the bird in Wermland while 

 migrating,, and both times in high grass by the river side ; 

 but the principal migration does not take place through 

 Sweden, for it is supposed that the Norwegian birds pass 

 over by the way of Jutland, and the Swedish birds through 

 Finland. 



The song of the blue-throated warbler is very clear, 

 high, and so varied, that among the Laps it goes by the 

 name of " Saddan Kiellinen," or hundred tongues. It is 

 clearly an aquatic warbler in its habits, for I never met 

 with it in Lapland in the breeding season except in the 

 fell meadows, in bushes, by the side of small running streams, 

 although, after the young could fly, the old birds sometimes 

 would take them up, on to the higher fells, but never very 

 high. 



The nest always on, or in the ground, often quite bare, 

 formed altogether of dry grass ; cup-shaped. Eggs six ; pale 

 blueish green, minutely spotted with rusty red, giving the 

 eggs a rusty appearance. 



84. L. EUBECULA, Keys, and Bias. Kodbrosta. The Bed- 



breast. D. F. 



Length 5 in. Upper part dark olive green, or grey- 

 brown ; wings and tail dark brown, with rusty brown 

 edges ; throat and breast red. 



Although a spring migrant to Scandinavia, some remain 

 here throughout the winter, and those which do migrate 

 leave the latest, and return perhaps the earliest, of any other 

 migrant. During the summer they are met with generally 

 throughout the country, almost as far up as within the 

 polar circle. Unlike the British robin, they seldom approach 

 the dwellings of man here at least in the middle of the 

 country but are usually seen in the deep forests. I never 

 met with the robin in Lapland. 



85. L. PIKENTCUKUS, Keys, and Bias. Eodstjert. The Ked- 



start. D. F. 



About the size of the redbreast, but more slender. Tail 

 and rump rusty red ; the middle feathers brown ; the male, 



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