. Report upon natural history collections made in Alaska between the years 1877 and 1881 . they disappeared. It makes its nest in bushes and weeds, generally close to the structure is a simple one, and contains five or six eggs of a greenish-olive or greenish-blueshotted with a deeper shade of the same color, the spots sometimes being scarcely visible. Theeggs measure 0, 02 to 0°=, 014 or 0-°, 015. In Northern Europe, the Swedish Nightingale, as thisbird is termed, frequents, by preference, the rocky or bush-grown banks of small streams. The fol-lowing description is taken from spec
. Report upon natural history collections made in Alaska between the years 1877 and 1881 . they disappeared. It makes its nest in bushes and weeds, generally close to the structure is a simple one, and contains five or six eggs of a greenish-olive or greenish-blueshotted with a deeper shade of the same color, the spots sometimes being scarcely visible. Theeggs measure 0, 02 to 0°=, 014 or 0-°, 015. In Northern Europe, the Swedish Nightingale, as thisbird is termed, frequents, by preference, the rocky or bush-grown banks of small streams. The fol-lowing description is taken from specimens in the collection of the National Museum. As thebird represents a genus as well as a species which has never been described in any Americanwork on ornithology, I give the generic characters as well as the specific. It may be prefaced thatthis genus is closely related to Saxicola : Generic characters.—Bill slendever in Saxicola; gape bristled; nostrils bare and ovoid;tail about three-fourths of wing; feet, claws, and tarsas long and slender in comparison with Plate RED-SPOTTED BLUE-THROATCvanecula s/^cnra ^ ( ADUUX MALE ) KENNIC0TT5 WILLOW ho irahs. ^ [ ADULT ) BIEDS. 221 Saxicola. The middle toe and claw are contained one and one-third times in tarsus; spuriousprimary two-fifths of first primary; second primary longest; third and fourth quills are a trifleshorter; tail slightly rounded. Specific characters.—Adult male. Heligoland, May, 1878. Back brown; feathers grayish atedges and darker anteriorly, especially on the crown, where the dark centers become nearly black;wings of a darker shade of brown than the back; two middle tail-feathers dark brown, the basalhalf of the remaining tail-feathers rusty-red, with their distal portion blackish-brown; the distribu-tion of color on the tail is very similar to the pattern on the tail of the common Eedstart or inSaxicola. The chin, throat, and the upper breast are bright blue,
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