28 WARBLER. 



between the wings deep black ; breast, belly, and vent deep chestnut ; 

 rump and tail the same ; the middle of the quills, from the third to 

 the tenth, white, forming a spot across them ; feathers round the joint, 

 or garter, black. 



The female has a paler rump ; the tips of the outer tail feathers, 

 and the whole of the two middle ones brown ; the rest of the bird 

 cinereous, deeper coloured above, with a mixture of rufous on the 

 belly. 



M. Gueldenstaedt, the author of the above description, observes, 

 that it inhabits the gravelly hollows of the Caucasian Torrents, the 

 whole summer; that it is migratory, going southward in winter, in 

 search of food ; runs on the banks of rivers ; is restless, but not fearful ; 

 often moving the tail, while it is sitting on the low shrubs ; it makes 

 the nest between the branches of the sea buckthorn, of the berries of 

 which it is very fond. 



A. — Length eight inches. Bill black ; the whole crown above 

 the eyes white ; the rest of the head, neck to the breast, back between 

 the wings, and the wings themselves, black ; the breast, belly, vent, 

 lower part of the back, rump, and tail fine bright chestnut ; the end 

 of the tail black; thighs and legs black. 



Inhabits India ; found at Coadwara, in April ; named Gir-Cha- 

 ondeea. — General Hardwicke. 



20— BLUE-THROATED WARBLER 



Sylvia Suecica, Lid. Orn. ii. 521. Klein, p. 77. III. Id. p. 80. xxiv. 



Motacilla Suecica, Lin. i. 336. Faun. snec. No. 259. Gin. Lin. i. 989. Frisch, t. 19. 



f.3.4. Georgi, 174. Borowsk. iii. 194. Gerin. iv. t. 397. 2. Spalowsk. i. t. 36. 



37. Nat. Misc. pi. 661. Tern. Man. d'Om. 117. Id. Ed. ii 216. 

 Cyanacula, Bris. iii. 413— male. Id. 8vo. i. 425. 

 — — ^—- — Gibraltariensis, Bris. iii. 416 — female. Id. 8vo. i. 486. 

 Ruticilla Wegflecklin, Rail, 78. A. 5. 3. Will. 160. Id. Engl. 219. 3. 

 Das Blaukehlchen, Naturf. xvii. 104. Id. xxii. 139. 



