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INSESSORES. PH(ENICURA. Redstart 



Its food consists 



Food. greenish-blue colour, and six in number 

 of worms, insects, and their larvae. 



General 

 descrip- 

 tion. 

 Male bird. 



Female. 



Plate C. Fig. 2. Represents ihe male bird. 



Crown of the head umber-brown. Feathers at the base of 

 the bill, and the eye streak, yellowish-white. Upper plu- 

 mage hair-brown, tinged with grey ; with the margins of 

 the wing-coverts and scapulars paler. Chin, throat, and 

 upper part of the breast, rich azure-blue, with a central 

 spot of silky- white ; the lower margin of the blue being 

 bounded by a narrow gorget of black, which is succeeded 

 by another of reddish-brown. Abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts dirty-white, or inclining to smoke-grey. 

 Tail with the two middle feathers hair-brown ; the rest 

 having the basal half orange-brown. Bill brown, paler 

 towards the base ; in form nearly the same as that of 

 Phanicura Tithys. Tarsi upwards of an inch in length; 

 toes slender; claws but slightly curved. 

 Fig. 3. The female has the feathers of the head finely 

 margined with grey ; and the upper part of her plumage 

 lighter in tint than the male. Chin pale azure-blue, 

 mixed with white. Upper part of the breast, and the 

 streak on each side of the neck, black, intermixed with 

 azure-blue, and surrounding a large patch of white. 

 Abdomen and tail as in the male. 



Subfamily PHILOMELINA. 



In addition to the Nightingales, or typical genus Philo- 

 mela (Swains.), this group contains the nearly alhed genus 

 Curruca (Bechst.), of which our sweet songster the Black- 

 cap may be taken as an example. I have also ventured 

 to include in it all the aquatic Warblers, answering to 

 the " Becfins Riverains''' of Temminck, and to which I 

 have given the generic appellation of Salicarin. To this 

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