. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . he gular and loral feathers are bristle-tipped. The Redstarts have the bill shorter than that of the Stone-chats, and more slender than that of the Bushchats. Theirform is less full, their bill more slender, their wings longer andstraighter, and their tail also longer, than those of the Bush-chats. They have a rather weaker bill and longer tars
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . he gular and loral feathers are bristle-tipped. The Redstarts have the bill shorter than that of the Stone-chats, and more slender than that of the Bushchats. Theirform is less full, their bill more slender, their wings longer andstraighter, and their tail also longer, than those of the Bush-chats. They have a rather weaker bill and longer tarsi andwings than the Sylviae, which however they very closely re-semble. Intermediate in form between the JSIotacillae, Saxi-colse and Sylvise, their habits are analogous, some species inthis respect resembling one of these genera more than food is composed of insects, which they generally catchon wing, of larvge, pupas, and berries. This genus is composed of Sylvia Suecica, S. Phoenicurus,S. Tithys, and three or four other species, all natives of the oldcontinent. Only one species is of common occurrence in Bri-tain ; but two others have been met with there in a very fewinstances. 300 RUTICILLA CYANECULA. THE Fig. 167. Motacilla suecica. Linu. Syst. Nat. I. 336. Motacilla suecica. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 521. Bee-fin Gorge-bleue. Sylvia suecica. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 216. Blue-throated Redstart. Phcenicura suecica. Selb. Illustr. I. 195. Sylvia suecica. Blue-throated Warbler. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 104. Male with the tipper parts wood-brown; the fore-neck andbreast tcith patches of ultramarine blue and light-red; the taillight-red, toicards the end brotcnish-black. Female with theupper parts as in the male ,• the throat blue, with a curvedblackish line. Male.—The Blue-throated Redstart, which has a veryslender claim for admittance into the British Fauna, is some-what larger than the White-fronted species, which it resem-bles in form, and so far
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