THRUSH. 107 



by names greatly similar. Dr. Buchanan has observed to me, that 

 in the bill, and the manners likewise, they are like the Grakle ; are 

 often gregarious, and very noisy; and adds, that it is not the 

 Baniahbow of Bengal : he mentions too, that the irides are white, 

 with a pale yellow ring ; legs pale flesh-colour, with a streak on the 

 back, and obsolete bars on the tail. 



120.— CHINESE THRUSH. 



Turdus Sinensis, Ind. Orn. i. 337. Lin. i. 295. Gm. tan; i." 829. Bris. ii. 221. t. 23. 



1. Id. 8vo. i. 219. 

 L'Hoamy de la Chine, Bitf. iii. 316. 

 Chinese Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 36. Id. Sup. 141. View of Hindus, ii. 267. Shaiv's 



Zool.x. 218. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill and legs yellowish ; the plumage 

 above rufous brown, beneath rufous yellow : the middle of the belly 

 ash-colour; over the eye a conspicuous white streak, composed of 

 slender feathers, passing almost to the hindhead ; tail rounded at the 

 end, crossed with about six narrow bars of black. 



The female rufous brown above, paler beneath ; head and neck 

 streaked With brown, the middle of each feather being of that colour ; 

 above the eye a slender white line ; tail brown, crossed with deeper 

 brown bars. 



Inhabits China, and there called Hoamy, or, according to the 

 notes of the late Mr. Pigou, Houa-Me, signifying a bird with 

 painted eyebrows. 



It will probably be hereafter found, that the last and this are mere 



Varieties of one and the same Species, and I am led to think so, 



from observing great difference among the various drawings in the 



collection of Sir J. Anstruther, and others : the general length is, 



indeed, much the same ; but in some, the streak over the eyes is 



indistinct, in others wholly wanting ; and in few only a dusky mark 



between the bill and eye. The ground colour, too, differs materially 



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