BLUE-THROATED REDSTART. 
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also, that our present bird may one day ere long 
be removed to a sub-genus, standing near to 
Phcenicura. In the male, the “ crown of the 
head is umber-brown ; feathers at the base of the 
bill, and eye streak, yellowish-white ; upper 
plumage hair-brown, tinged with gray, with the 
margin of the wing-coverts and scapulars paler ; 
chin, throat, and upper part of the breast, rich 
azure blue, with a central spot of silky white; 
the lower margin of the blue being bounded by a 
narrow gorget of black, which is succeeded by 
another of reddish-brown ; abdomen, and under 
tail coverts, dirty white, or inclining to smoky 
gray ; tail, with two middle feathers, hair-brown ; 
the rest having the basal half orange-brown.” * 
The female has the chin and throat white, 
surrounded with deep brownish black, each fea- 
ther having a pale margin ; a streak of azure 
extends from each side of the lower angle of the 
maxilla, and the upper part of the breast has the 
crescent of azure bounded beneath with blackish 
brown, and a slight tinge of reddish. 
In a specimen having the rufous patch on the 
breast, the auriculars are tinted with rufous, 
and above the eye streak there is another of dark 
umber-brown ; the dark parts of the tail are deep 
brownish black. 
The genera Philomela and Curruca, as we 
previously observed, are very closely allied to 
each other, both are woodland in their habits, 
* Selby, i. p. 196. 
