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SWEDISH DLUE-TIIROATED WAR15LER. 
disappearing among tlie low cover, but soon coming 
forth when all is still, yet without absolutely quitting 
the shelter of the herbage by going more than a few 
paces from it. In Lower Bengal these birds arc ex- 
tremely common in suitable situations.” 
Mr. Jerdon remarks, ‘‘In the Dukhun this is far from 
being common, and is only found during the cold season 
— from October to March. It frequents thick hedges, 
gardens, sugar-cane fields, and long grass or weeds in 
beds of tanks, etc., occasionally coming close to houses. 
It feeds on the ground, on which it runs along, picking 
up various insects, and does not return so quickly to 
its perch, neither has it that peculiar quivering of the 
tail, as the Indian E-edstart, though while feeding on 
the ground it occasionally jerks it up. It generally 
tries to conceal itself among the bushes it frequents 
when observed.” 
The male in breeding plumage has the upper parts 
and wings greyish brown; rump reddish; throat, from 
base of lower mandible to crop, bright blue, with a 
rusty red mark, or, as Temrainck calls it, “mirror” in 
the centre; the lowest blue feathers are edged with 
grey, and immediately below there is a broad black 
band, succeeded by one of a bright russet; abdomen 
and flanks are of a dirty white, with dusky and irreg- 
ular reddish markings; under tail coverts yellowish red; 
tail dark brown, the basal half of each feather, except 
the two middle ones, bright russet red; beak black; 
iris and legs brown. 
The female differs from the male in having the throat 
whitish, margined only with blue; the colours across 
the chest quite distinct; the abdomen is more uniformly 
yellowish white. 
In the young, before the first moult, the plumage is 
