ARCTIC BLUE-TIIROATED ROBIN. 269 



ERITHACUS SUECICA* {Brehm, nee Temminck). 

 ARCTIC BLUE-THROATED ROBIN. 



(Plate 9.) 



Motacilla suecica, Linn. Sysl. Xut. i. p. 336 (1766, partim) ; et auctorum pliiri- 



morum— (.&%), {Brehm), (Bli/th), (Gould), {Sundevall), (Jerdou), {Xemton), 



(Dresser), &c. 

 Ficedula suecica (Linn.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 0-13 (partim). 

 Motacilla cferulecula, Pali Zooc/r. Rosso-A^iat. i. p. 480 (1820). 

 Curruca suecica (im>j.J, Selhy, Trans. Nut. IList. Hoc. Xorthumb. i. p. 25.') (1831). 

 Cyanecula suecica (Linn.), Brehm, Voff- Deuischl. p. 350 (1831). 

 Phoenicura suecica (Linn.), Si/7;es, Proc.Zool. Soc. 1.-32, p. 92. 

 Pandicilla suecica {Linn.), Blyth, Field Natnralist, i. p. 291 (1833). 

 Euticilla cyanecula (Wolf), apud Mac;iill. Br. B. ii. p. 300 a830). 

 Lusciola suecica (Linn.), Keys, u. Bias. Tllrb. Eur. pp. Iviii, 190 (1840, partim). 

 Cy.mecula fastuosa, Less. liev. Zool. 1.^40, p. 220. 



Sylvia suecica (Linn.), Nordm. JJnnid. T'oy. Ltti.ss. merid. iii. p. 13fi (1.^40). 

 •Sylvia cyane (Pall.), apud Ecersm. Add. I'tdl. Zoogr. Busso-Ajiid. fasc. ii. p. 12 



(1841). 

 Phoenicura suecoides, Hodys. MS. Drawings (in the Brit. Jfns.) of B. ofXrpal, Passeres, 



pi. xci. no. 703, unde 

 Calliope suecioides; Hodys. Ctray's Zool Misr. p. 83 (1844). 

 Cyanecula suecioides, Hodys. Grays Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 

 Erithacus suecica (Li/in.), Deyl. Orn. Eur. i. p. jjIS (1.^49). 

 Sylvia CEeruliguIa, Pallfde Blyth, Cat. B. Mas. As. Soc. p. 107 (1849). 

 Cyanecula cserulecula (Pall.), Bonap. Consp. i. p. 290 (1850). 

 Cyanecula dichrosterna (Pcdl.),Jide C'ah. Mus. Hein. i. p. 1 (1850). 

 Sylvia ((Cyanecula) suecica (Linn.), var. cjerulecula (Pall.), Middend. Reis. Sihir. 



Zool. ii. pt. 2, p. 177 (18-53). 

 Niltava fastuosa (Less.), Bonap. Omqjt. Rend, xxxviii. p. .34 (1854). 

 Cyanecula cyaue (Eversm.), Bonap. Cat. Parziid. p. 5 (1850). 



* The earlier ornitholopists did not disting-uish between the Bluethroat with a white 

 spot on the blue throat, and the Bluethroat with a chestnut spot on the blue throat. 

 Some of them applied the specific name svecica to one species, and some of them to the 

 other, whilst a. few applied it indifferently to both species. It seems probable that the 

 name was more or less misapplied by Linnfeus, Gmelin, Bechstein, Latham, Temminck 

 A'i.jiUot, Naumann, Koch, Boie, Gould, Keyserliiig, Blasius, Gray, Bonaparte, Cabanis 

 Degland, Gerbe, Loche, and some others. Ornithological blunders are sooQ forgotten ; 

 but to avoid the possibility of mistake, it is wisest for the present either to adopt Pallas's 

 name, which, so far as I know, has never been misapplied, or to append an authority to 

 the name which clearly denotes the species intended to be discriminated. It appears that 

 Brehm was the first to distinguish between the two species ; but we cannot give him much 

 credit for doing so, because he was not content to make two species, but must needs split 

 them into five. Of the ornithologists who have misapplied the name, perhaps Temminck 

 is the earliest who applied it only to the wr(jng species. 



