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BLUE-THROATED WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Suecica.) 



JSy. pectore ferrugineo fascia ccerulea, rectricibus fuscis versus 

 - basin ferrugineus. 



Warbler with a rust-coloured breast, striped with blue; the tail- 

 feathers brown, rusty towards the base. 



Sylvia suecica. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 521. 43 



Motacilla suecica. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1 . 336. 3?. Lin. Faun. Suec. 

 25p. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 989. 



Cyanecula. Briss. Orn. 3. 413. 19. male. 



Cyanecula gibraltarensis. Briss. Orn. 3. 416. 20. female. 



La Gorge-blue. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 206. pi. \<l.Buff. PL 

 Enl. 6lO./. 1. male./ 2. female./. 3. young. 



Blue-throated Warbler. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 417- E. Edwards. 

 Birds.pl. 28. female. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 444. 30. 



ft. macula pectoris nivea. 



With a pure white pectoral spot. 



La Gorge-blue. Buff. PL Enl. 36l.f. 2. 



THIS beautiful species is nearly the size of the 

 Red-breast : the upper parts of its plumage are 

 greenish : the eyebrows white : the throat, and 

 fore-part of the neck, are of a bright azure blue ; 

 beneath "which is a black border, then red : the 

 belly, thighs, and vent, are dusky white: the tail 

 is brown, with the base of all but the two middle 

 feathers orange-red : the female has the throat 

 white : across the neck a band of blue, edged with 

 one of black beneath : in other respects she re- 

 sembles the male: in some specimens of the male 

 there is a beautiful silvery spot in the middle of 



