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CHINESE THRUSH. 



the shafts of each feather dusky brown : wings 

 and tail dusky : it has a very sweet note. 



CHINESE THRUSH. 



(Turdus sinensis.) 



Tu. rufescens, capite fusco striata, superciliis albis, rectricibus 



fuscis strigis obscurioribus^ pedibus flams. 

 Reddish Thrush, with the head striated with fuscous ; superciHa 



white; tail-feathers brown, with obscure striae; feet yellow. 

 Turdus sinensis. Lin, Si/st. Nat. 1. 2Q5. 20.^GmeL Syst, Nat, 



1. Q2g.—Briss. 2. 221. 7. t. 23. f, 1 — Lath, Ind, Orn. I , 



337' 35. 



L'Hoamy de la Chine. Buffi Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 3X6. 

 Chinese Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 36. 33. — Lath. Syn. 

 Sup. 141. 



Similar in appearance to the Redwing : its 

 length not quite nine inches : the male above 

 rufous brown ; below rufous yellow : middle of 

 the belly cinereous : streak over the eyes white : 

 tail rounded in shape, and barred with six black 

 lines : female with the beak yellowish : upper 

 parts of the plumage similar to the male : the 

 shafts of the feathers of the head and neck brown: 

 the supercilia not quite so white as in the male, 

 and the colour does not reach so far behind : the 

 under parts of the body pale rufous brown : tail 

 brown, with transverse deeper bars : legs yellow. 



This species inhabits China and India, and is 

 called Hoamy, 



