ARCTIC BLUETHROAT. 



CYANECULA SUECICA {Linn.). 



Motacilla svecica, Linn. S. N. i. p. 336. 

 Sylvia suecica, Naum. ii. p. 414. 

 Sylvia leucocyana, Naum. xiii. p. 373. 

 Ruticilla cyanecula, Macg. ii. p. 300. 

 Phoenicura suecica, Hewitson, i. p. 102. 

 Ruticilla suecica, Yarr. ed. 4, i. p. 321. 

 Cyanecula suecica, Dresser, ii. p. 317. 



Blaukehlchen, German. 



An occasional visitor to England. More common 

 during the autumn than the spring migration. 



There is considerable difficulty in distinguishing this 

 bird in its immature plumage from C. leucocyana ; but 

 one or the other, perhaps both, of these races have 

 appeared on our eastern coasts in large numbers during 

 the last few years. 



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