62 CYANECULA 



Fauvette Gorge bleue, French ; Pisco de peito azul, Portug. ; 

 Garganti azul, Span. ; Pett-azurro a macchia bianca, Ital.; 

 Blaauw borstje, Dutch. 



<$ ad. (Spain). Upper parts clove-brown, lores and ear-coverts dark 

 brown ; eye-stripe buffy white ; wings, middle tail feathers, and terminal 

 portion of other tail feathers dark brown, and the basal portion chestnut ; 

 cheeks, chin, throat, and upper breast rich ultramarine blue, with a large 

 central white patch occasionally altogether blue, bordered below with 

 black and then with bay ; rest of under parts, axillaries, and under wing- 

 coverts buffy white ; bill, legs, and iris brown. Culmen O65, wing 3*1, 

 tail 2'35, tarsus I'l inch. The female is paler, and has the under parts 

 buffy white with a dark brown band across the breast, but old females 

 have blue markings on the throat and breast. Young birds resemble the 

 female, but the nestling is striped like a young robin, and has the base of 

 all but the central tail feathers bay. In the autumn the feathers have 

 grey tips. 



Hob. Central Europe west to Holland ; southern and south- 

 western Europe on passage, wintering in Asia Minor, Palestine, 

 and North Africa ; Asia as far east as India. 



In habits and song it does not differ from C. suecica, and its 

 nest and eggs are like those of that species but are sometimes 

 darker or paler. C. abbotti Richmond, (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 xviii. p. 484-1896), from Ladak is, I should say, referable to the 

 present species, but I have not had an opportunity of examining 

 a specimen. 



94. RED-SPOTTED BLUE-THROAT. 

 CYANECULA SUECICA. 



Cyanecula suecica (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 336 (1766) ; (Hewitson), i. 

 p. 102, pi. xxix. fig. 1 ; (Naumann), ii. p. 417, Taf. 75 ; Gould, B. 

 of Gt. Brit. ii. pi. 49 ; Newton, i. p. 321 ; Dresser, ii. p. 317, pi. 49 

 and 50, fig. 2 ; Gates, F. Brit. Ind. Birds, ii. p. 99 ; Tacz. F. G. Sib. 

 G. p. 332 ; Saunders, p. 35 ; Lilford, iii. p. 10, pi. 5 ; C. ccerulecula 

 (Pall.), Zoagr. Ross. As. i. p. 480 (1811) ; (Seebohm), Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. v. p. 308. 



BlauJeehkhen, German, Blaakgaelk, Norweg. and Dan. ; Bldhake- 

 sdngaren, Swed. ; Kiellavcilggu, Lapp. ; Sinirintakerttu, Pata- 

 kielinen, Finn. ; Varalmshka, Russ. ; Huseni-pidda, Hind. ; Gun- 

 pigera, Gurpedra, Beng. ; Dunibak, Sind. 



$ ad. (Norway). Differs from C. wolfi only in having the central spot 

 in the blue bright bay instead of white. The female and young resemble 

 those of that species, there being no character by which they are dis- 

 tinguishable. 



