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Mr. R. Swmhoe’s Notes on Ornithology 
knowing, and would seldom allow you to come under the tree 
in which they were sporting. 
38. Lesser Ox-eye. Parus minor , Temm. & Schl. 
I never met with this species wild here, and only once saw one 
in a cage. M. Zill assured me it was by no means rare at Chefoo. 
Perhaps the bird is migratory in these parts, and had departed 
southwards before our arrival. I do not think there is sufficient 
difference between this and Parus cinereus to sanction a specific 
separation. I have shot very grey-backed birds at Amoy; and 
in Hongkong the specimens procured are certainly identical with 
a skin of P. cinereus lately received from Mr. Blyth. 
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39. Pale Redwing. Turdus pallidus, GmelinA ^ 
A few of these birds were about in September. ' Jh« tsU /f i 
40. Red-tailed Fieldfare. Turdus - JWW&s 
This Thrush resembles somewhat T. naumanni ; blit a differ¬ 
ence is at once seen in the brownish-red side-feathers of the tail, 
which are conspicuously displayed when the bird flies. A few 
arrived about Peking in October, and frequented the leafless 
groves, where they would perch on the topmost boughs of the 
twigs three or four at a time. The note was a kind of chuckling 
chirp, and differed much from the ordinary sibilant “sit ” uttered 
by all the other species found in China. The affinities of this 
Thrush are certainly with the Fieldfare. 
I may here state I have T. naumanni from Amoy, shot here on 
several occasions, and identified by Mr. Blyth. A Thrush-like 
Geocincla has also been procured at Amoy on two occasions. This 
Mr. Blyth declares to be his Turdus dissimilis , once procured in 
Calcutta. But one of this last species, shot at Hongkong, and 
included among my birds from Hongkong, Macao, and Canton, 
forwarded to Mr. Sclater in June last, has been identified by 
him as the young of Turdus cardis. (See antea, p. 37.) 
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The specimen I enclose was the only one I ever saw of this 
interesting bird. I met with it on the 26th of September in a 
grove of pines. It was very lively, hopping about from branch 
to branch with its eye fixed upon me. It occasionally bobbed its 
