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BLUEBREAST. 
BLUE-THROATED WARBLER. BLUE-THROATED REDSTART. 
BLUE-THROATED ROBIN. 
Sylvia suecica, JENYNS. 
Motacilla suecica, BEWICK. 
Phenicura suecica, SELBY. GOULD. 
Ficedula suecica, Eyton. BECHSTEIN. 
Curruca suecica, SELBY. 
Sylvia. Sywa—A wood, Suecica—Of Sweden. 
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Tus elegant bird, whose bright plumage reminds one of 
the gay colours indieative of the tropical regions, occurs 
throughout Europe; but almost exclusively in the summer— 
very few beimg ever seen in the winter. It is found as far 
north as Russia, Norway, Siberia, Lapland, Finland, Bothnia, 
and the northern parts of Sweden, as also in Greece, France, 
and Holland, the southernmost parts of Spain, Germany, 
Thuringia, Prussia, and Italy. It is least frequent on the 
western side of the continent. In the north of Africa it is 
found in the winter. 
It is said to frequent low marshy grounds, the borders of 
streams, and the outskirts of forests; but if the season be 
ungenial and backward, it approaches dwellings and farmsteads 
in search of food. ‘Towards the autumn it advances into 
the more cultivated districts for the like purpose, probably 
with its family, whose additional wants have to be supplied. 
Of these birds one was shot at Margate in September, 1842, 
so Edward Cole, Esq. has informed me; one also was shot 
by Mr. T. Embledon, on Newcastle ile Moor, in May, 
1826: another in Dorsetshire, and one, a male, was found 
dead upon the beach near Yarmouth, Norfolk, on the 21st. 
ot September, 1841. 
The Bluebreast migrates northwards ta the spring, and 
