30 WARBLER. 



21.— BLUE-NECKED WARBLER— Pl. civ.** 



LENGTH nearly six inches. Bill dusky; plumage above, 

 including the eye on each side, deep brown ; over the eye a streak 

 of white ; under parts dusky white; chin and throat pale blue, in 

 the middle of which is a rufous patch ; and the blue is also bounded 

 with rufous beneath ; the two middle tail feathers brown, and others 

 fine rufous half way from the base, the end half brown ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits India, called there Neelkunthee, Gunpigera, and Gun- 

 pedrah, also Neelkoant, or Blue-throat. 



A. — This is paler than the last, above the eye a white trace, and 

 a second on the lower jaw, but the blue on the throat, the red within, 

 and beneath the same. 



Found with the last; and named Ganutta. 



B. — This differs from the others, as the blue on the throat is 

 divided in the middle with a rufous semicircular band, bounded 

 below with rufous, as in both the others, and like them the tail half 

 rufous, half brown. 



In a drawing of one of these, the name given to it wasGehoonan. 



22— CAFFRARIAN WARBLER. 



Sylvia Caffra, Ind. Orn. i. 514. 



Motacilla Caffra, Gm. Lin. i. 997. Lin. Mant. 1771. p. 527. 



Caffrarian Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 426. Shaw's Zool. x. 670. 



SIZE of the White Wagtail ; head and back olive ; over the 

 eye a white streak; between the bill and eye black; throat and 



