36 Ta RU Sei: 
I am fatisfied that this bird is no more than our white-wreathed 
Shrike, vol. i. p. 178; the more fo, fince Linneus has quoted 
the fame place in the Aman. Acad. for both birds * 
CHINESE THR. Turdus Chinenfis, Liz. Sy. i. p. 294. Ne 20. 
x Le Grive de la Chine, Bri/- orn. ii. p. 221. N° 7. pl. 23. f. 1. 
L’Hoamy de la Chine, Buf. oi/ ili. p. 316. 
DEscRIPTION. ESS than a Redwing, but not unlike it: length eight inches 
and three quarters. Bill one inch ; yellowifh : plumage above 
rufous brown; beneath the fame, but pale: the head and neck 
are longitudinally ftriped with brown, each feather being fo in 
the middle: above each eye a flender white line: tail brown, 
tranfverfely croffed with deeper brown bars, which are moft 
vifible beneath: legs yellow, and pretty long. This was a 
female. 
Mate. In fome fine drawings from China, I faw a pair of thefe de- 
lineated: the female anfwered pretty nearly as above. The male 
was rufous brown above, and rufous yellow beneath; middle of 
the belly afh-colour: the ftreak over the eye more confpicuous, 
and paffing farther behind : the tail rounded in fhape, and toed 
with fix narrow bars of black. 
Prace. This fpecies inhabits China, where it is called Hoamy. 
* Some fine Chinefe drawings have lately come under my infpection, in 
which was this bird: it feemed clearly to be a Thrufo, and not a Shrike 5 and 
will in courfe render the whole which has been faid before under that head un- 
neceflary. ae 
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