B LI JETH BOAT. 

 PA RREKES. 



RUTICILLA SUECICA (Linnaeus*). 



THE BLUETHROAT. 



Phcenicura Suecica. 



RUTICILLA. C. L. Brehmf. Bill slender, compressed towards the point, a little 

 deflected and very slightly emarginated. Nostrils basal, supernal and nearly 

 round. Wings moderate ; the first quill short ; the second equal to the sixth ; 

 the third, fourth and fifth, nearly equal, and one of them the longest. Legs 

 slender, the tarsus longer than the middle toe, and covered in front by a single 

 scale ; outer toe a little longer than the inner. 



Two instances only of the occurrence in England of this 

 pretty Warbler had been recorded when, in 1838, the species 

 was included in the original edition of this work. The first 

 bird, a fine cock, was shot on the Town-Moor of Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne, May 20th, 1826, by Mr. Thomas Embleton, who 

 gave it to the Museum of that town, where it still is. This 

 fact was first noticed in 1827 by Mr. Fox in his ' Synopsis 



* Motacilla suecica, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 336 (1766). 

 f Isis, 1828, p. 1280. 

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