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China ; but on close examination it is found to have a broade^ 

 eye-streak, the black more advanced on the forehead arid 

 extending further dowTi the hind neck, and the back dingier 

 and daubed with black. B is a male of May ; the back is al- 

 most entirely black, and the sides of the neck black in part. 

 C is a female killed in March, and is in full breeding- plumage. 

 The head, neck, and back are entirely black, except the fore- 

 head, eyebrow, and chin, which are white. It is the fullest 

 plumage I have yet seen, and quite equals the figure in the 

 ' Fauna Japonica.'' This bird I take to be quite adult, and 

 already in breeding-trim ; while the other two were probably 

 birds of the previous year, the. male (as usual in this class) 

 having acquired his dress earlier than the female. 



19. Eastern Grey Wagtail. Calobates melanojjs (Pall.). 

 Two specimens shot in April, and both marked females. 



One, however, has the black throat of the male, and must be 

 of that sex. They are of the bright short-tailed race that pre- 

 vails on the coast of China. 



20. Brown Thrush. Turdus fuscatus, Pall. 

 A female of the past year, shot in March. 



21. Blue and Red Rock-Thrush. Monticola solitarius 

 (P. L. S. Miill.). 



A pair of adult birds, both shot in May, and therefore in 

 breeding-plumage. The female is like the female of the China 

 bird ; buff washed grey on the underparts, each feather with 

 a crescentic bar of blackish ; upper parts blackish grey washed 

 with blue, which brightens on the scapulars and rump, most 

 feathers having a crescentic bar of blackish ; wings and tail 

 blackish brown, the former edged paler. The male has lost 

 all his mottlings. His upper parts, throat, and breast are of 

 a fine silvery blue, which also margins the feathers of his 

 black wings and tail. His axillarics, belly, and vent are of a 

 rich chestnut-red. In my goodly series from China and For- 

 mosa, a few of which were also shot in May and are free from 

 mottlings, I have not one of such bright tints as the Japanese 

 bird. I must state that I cannot agree with Messrs. Sharpe 

 and Dresser^s conclusions (see their * Birds of Europe ') as to 



