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Blaukehlein, Gunth. Nest. t. 74. Wirs. Vog. t. 9. 



La Gorge bleue, Buf. v. 206. pi. 12. PL enl. 610. 1— male. Id. f. 2— female. Id. 



f. 3 — young. PI. enl. 361. 2 — an old male. 

 Blue-throated Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 444. Arct. Zool. ii. 417. E. Edw. pi. 28— fern. 



Shaw's Zool. x. 660. 



SIZE of the Redbreast, and much the same in colour above. 

 Over the eye a white streak ; throat, and neck before bright azure 

 blue; beneath this a border of black, and below it the breast is red ; 

 belly, thighs, and vent, dusky white ; tail brown, but the base half 

 of all but the two middle feathers orange red. 



The female differs in having the throat white ; across the neck a 

 band of blue, bordered beneath with another of black ; the rest of 

 the under parts dusky white. 



Inhabits many parts of Europe, though no where so common as 

 the Redbreast, and we collect from the above synonyms, that it is 

 met with in various parts between Sweden, and Gibraltar ; said to 

 frequent places near the water, among reeds and the like, and makes 

 the nest of grass, &c. on the willows. Authors mention, that it has 

 an agreeable song, singing in the night:* the young do not gain the 

 colour on the breast till after some time, as in the Redbreast, being 

 only spotted with brown on that part; audit has been remarked, 

 that the blue colour disappears if the bird be kept in a cage, not 

 obtaining it after the first moult : it is a pretty common species about 

 Alsace, and being thought palatable food, many are caught for the 

 use of the table. 



Some birds, supposed to be old males, have a beautiful silver- 

 white spot, the size of a silver penny, in the middle of the blue, on 

 the fore part of the neck. 



Mr. Edwards is said to have received his specimen from Gibraltar, 

 but Mr. White never once met with it during his stay there. 



* Frisch. 



