ei HR OS: | El. 
-feen alone, except in breeding -time, when it frequently is 
known to make the neft in old ruined edifices, church- 
towers, and fuch-like places, (but not two pair near each 
other) laying five or fix eggs. The young are eafily brought 
up, and, befides that fweet fone which nature has furnifhed them 
with, and for which they are fo much efteemed, may be taught 
to whiftle, and articulate words. They are faid not only to fing 
in the day, when kept in a cage, but alfo by candle-light, and to 
live in this ftate eight or ten years. 
The food confifts of infects, grapes, and other fruits. 
Ic is not ftri€tly a bird of paflage; but is obferved to change 
place in different feafons ; coming into thofe parts where it is 
ufed to build, in Apri/, and retiring in Augu/. 
Le Solitaire de Manille, Bri/. orn. ii, p. 270. N° 31. pl. 33. f. 2. 
Le Merle Solitaire de Manille, Buf. oi/. iii. p. 363.—FP. ex/. 636. (the male). 
—564. 2. (the female), 
IZE of the Rock Shrike: length eight inches. Bill one 
inch; colour of it brown: the head, fore part of the neck, 
and the back, are cinereous blue: the rump blue: fpotted with 
yellow on the throat, fore part of the neck, and upper part of the 
breaft : wing coverts {potted with the fame, but not fo thick, and 
mixed likewife with other white fpots: the under parts of the 
body are orange, marked with blue and white curved fpots: the 
quills and tail are blackifh, the laft margined with rufous: the 
legs are blackifh. ° 
The female is a plain bird, if compared with the male; has 
neither blue nor orange about her, being wholly of a brownifh 
colour, with {pots of deeper brown on the head, neck, and under 
parts, which are paler than thofe above. 
This was brought from Manilla, by M. Sonnerat.. 
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