abt TEL REY Ue Sy4 Ei. 
Le Merle Dominiquain de la Chine, Sox. Vey. Ind. vol. ii. p. 191. 
HIS isa trifle lefs than our Blackbird. The bill is black- 
ifh, with a tinge of red and yellow: irides the colour of yel- 
low orpiment: the head and neck are white, and the feathers 
long and narrow: the hind part of the neck deep cinereous grey : 
the back and rump, breaft and belly, the fame, but paler: wing 
coverts and leffer quills copper green, gloffed with violet; on the 
firft, a white fpot or two: the quills black: the tail like the 
wing coverts; the under coverts of it white: legs yellow. 
The female has the head grey, like the reft of the sae and 
the copper glofs on the wings lefs brilliant. 
Thefe birds are found in China, where they are called Petites 
Galinotes. 
Le petit Merle de L’Ifle'de Panay, Sox. Voy. p. 115. pl. 73. 
IZE of the Pettichaps. Irides red: the head, neck, back, 
and wing coverts, are of a greenifh black, with a glofs of both 
‘blue and violet: the feathers on the head and neck differ from the 
reft, in being longer and narrower: quills and tail black. 
This is very common at Manilla, Panay, and almoft all the 
Philippine iflands; being often feen in flocks of thoufands to- 
gether. It makes the neft frequently in pigeon-hou/es, like the 
‘Starling ; whence it has obtained that name by many. It has a 
fine fong, and fo agreeably variegated, that it has obtained the 
mame of Mujfician. 
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