30G TEN YEARS IN SWEDEN. 



throat black breast rusty red ; forehead white ; back 

 ash grey ; the female above brown-grey ; throat whitish ; 

 breast reddish brown ; second wing feather like sixth ; 

 third a little shorter than fourth, which is longest. 



Is met with in the summer, dispersed over all Scandi- 

 navia, from Scania up to Enare, Lapland, 70 north lat., and 

 next to the willow warbler, is the commonest of all the 

 warblers, both in Scandinavia as well as Finland. 



86. L. TITHYS, Keys, and Bias. Svart Eodstjert. Tithys' 



Kedstart. D. 



About the size of the last, but may at once be dis- 

 tinguished by the darker colour of the whole body, the 

 different proportionate length of the wing feathers, and 

 the total absence of all red on the body, except the tail. 

 Tail as in the last, but scarcely so bright ; in the male 

 throat and breast black ; head, neck and back ash blue ; 

 no white on the forehead as in the last ; in the female 

 body colour above dark ; below paler ash grey ; second 

 wing feather like the seventh ; third, fourth, and fifth 

 nearly equal, and longest. 



Is only accidental in the North ; only three examples are 

 recorded as killed in Sweden, and none in Norway. The 

 first at Upsala many years since; the second, a female, 

 was shot by myself in the spring of 1851, near Kullen, 

 in Scania; and the third, a young male, was taken in 

 autumn at Stockholm by Conservator Memes. Accidental 

 in Denmark, and not known in Finland. Unlike the last, 

 the eggs of which are light blue, the eggs of this species are 

 pure white. 



SECTION 3. Ficedula, Keys, and Bias. 



PLANTATION WARBLERS. 



Beak thin and small, more broad than high at the root ; 

 legs thin and weak ; wings longer than in the tree warblers, 

 reaching beyond half the tail, which is indented; the outer- 

 most or second feather longest. May be known by their 



