Descriptive List of Birds 



63. jEthiopsar fuscus : The Jungle Myna. 

 F. 552, J. 686, III. E. W. 



Very like the common myna and is doubtless 

 often mistaken for it. 



It may, however, be readily distinguished 

 by the fact that there is no yellow patch of bare 

 skin behind the eye. The entire head is black. 

 There is a little tuft of black feathers on the 

 forehead which the common myna has not. 

 The base of the bill is blue-black. 



Common at Mussoorie, rare at Simla. At 

 Dharmsala and, I think, Darjeeling it does 

 not ascend the mountains so high as the hill 

 stations. Brooks observed it at Ramgarh, 

 between Naini Tal and Almora. 



Flycatchers 



Flycatchers are well-represented in the 

 Himalayas. They feed exclusively on insects 

 which they catch on the wing. Their habit is 

 to make sallies into the air from a perch in 

 order to capture their quarry. All flycatchers 

 have this habit, but some birds which are not 

 flycatchers behave in this way, e.g. bee-eaters, 

 drongos. 



64. Hemichelidon sihirica : The Sooty fly- 

 catcher. F. 558, J. 296, -I. E. W. K. 



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