SAXICOLA. 579 
Genus CYANECULA Breum. (Page 571, pl. CXXIV.,, fig. 2.) 
Species. 
Common CuaractErs.—Above plain grayish brown, the tail dusky, with basal 
half (except of middle feathers) abruptly clear rufous; a superciliary stripe of dull 
white; lower parts, from breast back, dull white, the sides tinged with grayish brown. 
Adult males : Chin, throat, and breast blue, usually enclosing a spot of rufous or white 
on lower part of throat, the blue bordered posteriorly by a blackish crescentic band, 
this succeeded by a broader one of rufous. Adult females without any blue, the 
chin, throat, and chest being whitish, bordered laterally and posteriorly by a nearly 
continuous series of blackish spots; a whitish malar streak. Young: Dark sooty 
above and across chest, with narrow streaks of pale yellowish; lower parts with 
feathers whitish centrally, but bordered with sooty blackish; under tail-coverts 
pale buff. Vest in cavities in banks of streams, etc., composed of mosses and dried 
grasses, lined with finer grasses and hair. Hggs 3-5, .73 x .55, pale olive, olive- 
greenish, or brownish, deeper on or round larger end (sometimes uniform). 
a. Adult male with throat-spot rufous; length about 6.00, wing 3.10-3.15, tail 2.35- 
2.40, culmen .45-.48, tarsus 1.10-1.15. Had. Northern Europe and Asia; 
casual (?) in western Alaska (St. Michael’s). 
764. C. suecica (Linn.). Red-spotted Bluethroat. 
a’, Adult male with throat-spot (if present) white, but throat, etc., frequently en- 
tirely blue; wing 2.90-3.00, tail 2.10-2.30, culmen .45-.50, tarsus 1.00-1.10. 
Hab. Central Europe, east to Russia. 
C. wolfii BRrHM. Bluethroat.? 
Genus SAXICOLA Becusterin. (Page 571, pl. CXXIV.,, fig. 5.) 
Species. 
Adult male: Above plain ash-gray, the wings and terminal third of tail black, 
the basal two-thirds of the latter (except on middle feathers) white; forehead, 
superciliary stripe, lower rump, and upper tail-coverts also white; a broad stripe 
of black on side of head, including lores, orbits, and ear-coverts ; lower parts plain 
light buffy anteriorly, white posteriorly. Adult female: Above duller gray, the 
wings and terminal portion of tail dusky; lores dusky, and auriculars dusky gray- 
ish, neither in marked contrast; lower parts dull grayish buff anteriorly, dull 
‘white posteriorly. Winter plumage: Above plain brown, the lower rump, upper 
tail-coverts, and basal portion of tail white, as in summer; wing-feathers (blackish 
in male, grayish dusky in female) conspicuously margined with light cinnamon or 
1 Sylvia wolftt Breum, Beitr.-Vogelk. ii. 1822, 173, Cyanecula wolftt Breum, Isis, 1828, 1280. 
