Mr. J. Gould on a new species of Momotus. -373 



CoRvus cuLMiNATUs, Sykes. Large Black Crow. 



Less numerous, and of less intrusive and impertinent habits than 

 the last. It breeds at the same time, and lays the same number of 

 ^gs as the Common Crow of India. The eggs are of a pale blue 

 *^shed and spotted with olive and grey, 1 inch and rather more than 

 '•^ths of an inch in length, by 1 inch and rather more than ^ths of 

 -ail'indhiti wid<*h. The eggs of this Crow also yary in size and coloUif, 

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, Pastor Tristis, Temm. Common Myn4^ ^^^^ ^ j^^^^^ j^^^^l^ 



This sprightly talkative bird is common in Western' India. It 

 lives in small flocks, and is a close attendant on cattle, walking 

 amongst them with a cheerful upright gait, its head inclined, now on 

 this side now on the other, watching for insects, all the while talking 

 and muttering with its peculiarly smooth and oily note. It is a great 

 favourite with the natives, who keep numbers of them in cages. The 

 Myna breeds during the month of May, making its nest in the holes 

 of trees and buildings, also in stacks and ricks. It lays as many as 

 six eggs, of a pale blue colour, 1 inch and rather more than ^ths of 



an inch in length, by yVlis of an inc}i,,jji;wi4jtl|ei/'iSS^ -9}^K9f/^^ 

 same nest differ in size. 



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liydJ 'My)i25^ 1854V— John Gould, Esq., F.B-JSi^ in the Cla6ifil;t lo 

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.sir ,i9ir)fiift^QlWfiTjpN of a New Species, ORMoMPTumX .9Tij 

 {fwlmofl 9di 'lo -lO'jfty* John Gouj^d, F.Il.Sf. r|}TC,i.jy g-xa ^jjrfj jgrfj 



'*' Mridould exiiibited a species ot Momotus, whicT& fie'had'hadf'm 

 Hf^ collection for many years, and which he believed to be entirely 

 new to science. It is most nearly allied to the Momotus Mexicanus, 

 but differs from that species in its much larger size, in the deeper 

 chestnut-colour of the head, and in having a greyish-white mark 

 under the eye, in lieu of the rich blue one observable in M. Mexica- 

 nus. These differences induce Mr. Gould to consider it to be distinct ; 

 In which opinion he was greatly confirmed by finding other examples, 

 precisely similar in colour, in the fine collection of the late Earl of 



Derby, now in Liverpool. He therefore proposed for it the name of 



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'^•%OMOTUS CASTANE^dii^''^'^ ^"^ -ifiindcnp^ jmA^ W^vn \rnrroi 



.Crown of the head very deep chestnut, gradually blending on the 

 t)ack of the neck into the reddish grass-green of the back and wing- 

 coverts ; primaries and secondaries bluish green on the external web 

 and next the shaft on the internal web, the remainder of the feathers 

 being brownish-black, largely margined with buffy-yellow at the base, 

 "j^d with black shafts; upper t^il-coteri^ apd ,taiV^ W the 



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