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INSECTIVOR.E. 
Family SYLVIADJE. 
Genus Sylvia, f Latham.) 
RUBY-THROATED WARBLER. 
Syhia calliope. 
Motacilla calliope. 
Tardus ca m tscha tkensis, 
“ calliope, 
Accentor calliope. 
Calliope latliami, 
“ camtschatJcensis, 
Luseiola (melodes) calliope, 
Cyanecida calliope, 
Sylvia calliope. 
Gorge en feu calliope, 
FeuerTcelilchen Sanger, 
Gunpigera, 
Gangular, 
Nogotto, 
Pallas; Voy., 1776. 
Gmelin; Syst. N., 1788. 
Gmelin; S. N. L. 
Latham; 1790. 
Temminck; 1835. 
Gotjld. 
Bonaparte; 1838. Blyth. 
Hodgson. 
Keyseeling and Blasius; 1840. 
SCHLEGEL; 1844. 
Gray; Gen. Birds. 
Muhle; 1856. 
Of the French. 
Of the Germans. 
Bengal. 
Nepal. 
Japan. 
Specific Characters. — Upper parts olive green; primaries and 
tail hair brown. Under parts whitish, mottled with olive; throat 
and neck of a clear brilliant vermilion red, lighter in the female. 
Length of male six inches and a half; carpus to tip three 
inches; tarsus one inch and three fifths; middle toe one inch and 
one fifth. Female rather less. 
