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The species is unmistakable among our mynas by having the elon- 

 gated, lanceolate feathers of the forehead permanently erected to 

 form a bushy crest. Adults have the plumage generally black; glossy 

 on the crest, crown, and nape, duller elsewhere ; the wings black, over- 

 laid with bronze on the exposed portions and with a broad white band 

 at the bases of the primaries ; the rectrices black, with an outwardly 

 increasingly broad white tip; the shortest under tail coverts black, 

 the others white with the concealed bases black. 



Stuart Baker has "corrected" the type locality of Acridotheres 

 grandis Moore to Tenasserim (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 

 27, 1921, p. 702) ; since there is still no good evidence for the occur- 

 rence of the race in any part of that province, his fixation cannot 

 stand. The facts seem to be that Baker, in 1921, confused grandis 

 with torquatus and that his grandis of 1921 from Tenasserim is equiv- 

 alent to his torquatus of 1926 from Pahang (Fauna of British India, 

 Birds, ed. 2, vol. 3, 1926, p. 58), which was not mentioned at all in 

 1921. In any case, the type locality of the true Acridotheres grandis 

 Moore must be altered, and I now establish it as Bangkok; at the 

 same time, clearly to place it in synonymy with grandis, I restrict to 

 Bangkok the type locality of Acridotheres siamensis Swinhoe (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1863, p. 303). 



STURNUS MALABARICUS NEMORICOLA (Jerdon) 



Indo-Chinese Ashy-headed Myna 



Stumia nemoricola Jerdon, Ibis, 1862, p. 22 (Thayetmyo, Burma). 



Stumia malabarica, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 168 

 (listed). 



Spodiopsar malabaricus nemoriculus [sic], Gyij)enstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet- 

 Akad. Handl., 1916, p. 25 (Khun Tan). 



Spodiopsar malabaricus nemoricolus, Gyedenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 454 (Khun 

 Tan). 



Stumia malabarica malabarica, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1929. p. 558 (Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai, Chiang Saen) ; 1934, p. 233 

 (Chiang Mai). — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 151 

 (Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai). 



Stumia malabarica nemoricola, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 

 1931, p. 151 (Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. 123 (Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai).— de 

 Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, p. 233 (Chiang Mai). — 

 Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 490 ("Doi Tin Pata" [= Foot of 

 Doi Pata?]). 



The ashy-headed myna is a rare and locally distributed permanent 

 resident but an abundant winter visitor in the provinces of Chiang 

 Rai, Chiang Mai, and Mae Hong Son; from the remaining parts of 

 the North it has not yet been recorded at all. At Chiang Mai Town 

 it was a most conspicuous bird, chiefly on the plain but occasionally 



