ZOOLOGICAL MISCELLANY 
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1 . Description of twelve undescribed species of Birds, discovered by 
John Reeves, Esq., in China. 
The collection from which these Birds are described consisted of sixty- 
nine species, of which thirty-six species were peculiar to India, and thirty- 
three common to Europe, or North America, as well as India; of the 
thirty-three, twenty-seven were aquatic Birds, and six land : and of these 
six, two (the Kingfisher and Wagtail) seek their food in water, and two 
are the domestic companions of man, as the Magpie and Tree Sparrow. 
White headed Pastor. Pastor bicolor, n. s. Black-brown ; head, false 
wing, tips of wing coverts, secondaries, vent and tail feathers, abdomen 
and rump white ; lower part of neck black ; sides black streaked ; bill 
and feet black. Length 12J inches. Inhab. China, India. Dr. Horsfield. 
Silky Pastor. Pastor sericeus, n. s. Vinaceous brown ; rump, 
sides and chest rather paler ; crown yellow white ; chin and middle of 
abdomen reddish white ; vent, under wing coverts, outer edge of false 
wing, and base of primaries white ; tail and wing metallic green-black ; 
bill slender, reddish. Length inches, Inhab. China. 
Two-coloured Thrush. Turdus melaleucus, n. s. Black; beneath 
greyish black ; head, ears, chin, and spot on the front edge of wing, 
white ; bill and feet yellow; bill compressed at the end ; nearly as long 
as the head. Tarsi and feet small. Tail even. Length 10 inches; wing 
41 inches; bill 9 lines. 
Black-billed Myophonus. Myophonus nitidus, n. s. Blue black ; 
tips of all the feathers (except the quills and tail) with a polished 
bHght blue spot; a few of the larger wing coverts white tipped; sides 
under the wings, white streaked ; bill and feet black. Length 11 in- 
ches. Inhab. China, Reeves. India, Gen. Hardwicke. Like M. me- 
talicus, but bill and feet black. 
Chinese Butcher Bird. Lanius Chinensis, n. s. Crown, and back of 
neck, ash; forehead orbits and back of ears, wings and tail black; chin 
and throat white; rump, loins, outer edge of secondaries, outer web of 
outer, and tips of all, except the two middle tail feathers, bright bay ; 
under wing coverts, chest and abdomen, pale brown ; tail much graduated. 
Length 11 inches. Tarsi IJ inch. 
Reeves's Redstart. Sylvia, f PhcBnicurus,J Reevesii. Black; crown 
and nape blue ash ; back of neck rather paler, chest, under wing coverts, 
abdomen, loins, rump, and all, (except the two middle, and outer edge 
of the outer,) tail feathers, bright red bay ; base of outer web of secon- 
daries white. Inhab. China. 
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