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Sturnia cana, Blyth, J. A. S. Beny. xiii. p. SGo (1844) ; id. Cat. B. 



Mus. As. Soc. p. 110 (1849). 

 Sturnia elegaus, Bhjth, J. A. S. Beny. xiii. p. 364 (1844) ; Gould, 



P. Z. S. 1859, p. 1.31. 

 Pastor sinensis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 334 (1847). 

 Heterornis elegans, Bp. Consp. i. p. 419 (1850). 

 Temenuchus turdiformis, Swinh. Ibis, 1860, p. 60, 1861, p. 44. 

 Hetserornis sinensis, Sicinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 302, 1865, p. 358, 1868, 



p. 128, 1870, p. 80. 

 Temenuchus sinensis, Sivinh. Ibis, 1866, p. 394, 1870, p. 352 ; id. 



P. Z. 8. 1871, p. 384; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 21, no. 6299 (1870) ; 



David 4" Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 363 (1878). 

 Temenuchus elegans, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 21, no. 6303 (1870) ; 



Tiraud, Bull. Soc. Ayric. Cochin Chine, 1879, p! 135. 



Adult male. General colour above ashy grey ; scapulars white, 

 tinged with creamy buff; lower back inclining to isabelline grey; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts creamy buff, inclining to ocbraceous ; 

 wing-coverts white, the greater coverts creamy buff ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills velvety black, glossed externally with 

 steel-green or purplish ; the inner secondaries entirely glossy green ; 

 tail-feathers black with a steel-green gloss, and tipped with fawn- 

 buff, increasing in extent towards the outermost ; crown of head 

 creamy buff, a little greyer on the nape and hind ne^k ; lores deep 

 creamy buff as also the fore part of the cheeks and chin ; the throat, 

 sides of face, and ear-coverts rather paler and more isabelline ; 

 lower throat, sides of neck, fore neck, and breast pale delicate ashy 

 grey, the throat with a few paler and more lanceolate feathers ; 

 abdomen ashy white ; sides of body and flanks rich tawny buff, 

 paler on the latter ; thighs and under tail-coverts creamy buff ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries pale salmon-colour, white at the 

 base; quills below dusky blackish, somewhat more ashy along the 

 inner edge : " bill blue, the mouth darker blue ; legs plumbeous ; 

 claws horn-colour ; iris white " (E. W. Oates). Total length 6-7 

 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 4-1, tail 2'3, tarsus 1. 



Abbe David gives the colour of the iris as blacl; the bill blue 

 with the tip yellow, and the feet reddish grey. 



Uab. China, Formosa, and Hainan, wintering in South China and 

 extending to Siam, Cochin China, Pegu, and even to Malacca. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Fokien, China. Gould Coll. 



c, d. cJ ad. sk. Whampoa, April 17, 1860 Seebohm Coll. 



{R. Swinhoe). 

 e-x. Ad. sk. Amoy, April, May {R. S.). 



y, z. S ad.; a'. 5 Amoy, June 1872 (Capt. R. Bowdler Shai-pe, 



juv. sk. Conrad). Esq. [P.]. 



b'. Ad. sk. Amoy, June 1866 (R. Swin- Seebohm Coll. 



hoe). 

 e'. S ad. ; d'. Imm. Amoy, Jime 29, 1866. Consul Swinhoe [C], 



sk. 

 e'. Ad. sk. Amoy, October 1873. Professor Steere [C.]. 



f. Ad. sk. Amoy, Dec. 22, 1857 Seebohm Coll. 



(-R. Sivi?ihoe). 

 y\ Ad. sk. Formosa, March 1866 {R. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



