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CATALOGUE. 
Phoenicura suecica, Sykes, P. Z. S. (1832),^. 92. Jerd., 
Madr. Jomn. X. 267. 
Sylvia sperata, var. A., Lath., Hist. VII. p. 107 (Jemale). 
Calliope suecicoides, Hodgs. Qray's Zool, Misc. (1844), 
p. 83. 
Blue-necked "Warbler, Lath., Hist. VII. p. 30, t. 104 
(male). 
The Bluebreast, Blyth. 
HusAiNi PiDDA, Hind., Jerd. 
DuMBUK, Cabul, Blyth. 
Neel Ktjnthee, Gtttnpigera, and GrEPEDEAH, Hind., 
Dr. F. {B.) Hamilton, MS. I. p. 22. 
a. b. Afghanistan. From Griffith's Collection. 
c. d. ^ ? . Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
e. ^. Drawing. From Dr. F. (B.) Hamilton's Col- 
lection. 
" The Bluebreast affects the open country, where there are no 
trees, and especially reedy places or plantations of sugar-cane, or 
growing corn or high grass, or ground covered with the broad leaves 
of cucurbitaceous plants ; and there they are seen generally on the 
ground, running with alternate steps, like a Pipit or Wagtail, and 
occasionally spreading wide the tail, displaying its rufous base to 
advantage ; seldom perching, but flitting before you as you advance, 
and disappearing among the 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 are extremely common in suitable situations." — (Blyth, J. A. 
S. Beng. XVI. p. 135.) 
" In the Dukhun, this is far from being common, and is only found 
during the cold season, from October till March. It frequents thick 
hedges, gardens, sugar-cane fields, and long grass or weeds in beds 
of tanks, &c., occasionally coming close to houses ; and 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 Eedstart, though while feeding 
on the ground it occasionally jerks it up. It generally, when 
observed, tries to conceal itself among the bushes it frequents." — 
(Jerd., Madr. Journ. X. p. 267.) 
Mr. E. L. Layard " procured this bird in Ceylon, at Ambegamoa, in 
