13. MAINATUS. 99 



Key to the Species. 



a. A bare patch of yellow skin below the eye. 



a'. Bare wattled skin extending- in two lines, 



one from the lappet to behind the eye and a 



second inner one to nearly the centre of 



the crown (see fig.). 



a". Smaller: hind neck purple; back steel- 



gi-een; throat steel -green ; chest purple, relii/iusua, i^. ifj. 

 h" . Larger : bill much stouter ; glossed with 

 oily-green on the upper and under sur- 

 face veneratus, p. 101. 



b'. Only one line of bare skin behind the crown 

 extending from the lappet to the ej'e ; no 

 second median line. 

 c". Postocular line of black feathers joined \java7iensis, p. 102. 



to the ear-coverts ] palawanensis, p. 104. 



d". Smaller : a distinct space between the 



posterior black line of feathers on the ( intevmedius, p. 104. 

 sides of the face and the ear-coverts. • . . \ andamanensis, p. 107. 



( 7'obustiis, p. 100. 

 h. No bare patch of yellow skin below the eye, 



the whole sides of face feathered jitilogenys p. 109. 



1. Mainatus religiosus t- 



The Minor, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. ii. pi. 38 (1738). 



The Minor or Mino, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. i. p. 17, pi. 17 (1743). 



Le Grand Mainate, Bviss. Oru. ii. p. 308 (1700). 



Gracula religiosa, Linn. Sust. Nat. i. p. 164 (1760) ; Jerd. Madr. 

 Journ. xi. p. 24 (1840) ; A. Hay, Malr. Journ. xiii. pt. 2, p. 1,56 

 (1844); Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 330 (1845, pt.); Blyth, J. A. 8. 

 Beng. xv. p. 31 (1846) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 109 (1840) ; 

 Bp. Cvnsp. i. p. 422 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 207 ( 1850) ; 

 Layard, Ann. N. H. (2) xiii. p. 216 (1854); Sckl. N. T. D. i. 

 p. 3, pi. i. fig. 1 (1863). 



Le Mainate des Indes Orientales, Dauhent. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 2C8. 



Minor Grakle, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 455 (1783). 



Mainatus religiosus, Less, in Ferussac, Bull. x. p. 158 (1827). 



Gracida indica, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 178* (184-3). 



Gracula minor, A. Hay, Madr. Journ. xiii. pt. 2, p. 1.34 (1844). 



Eulabes religiosa, Horsf. ^ Muore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 522 

 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 337 (1863) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 40 ; 

 Melliss, Ibis, 1870, p. 101 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 18, no. 6264 

 (1870); Holdsiv. B. Z. S. 1872, p. 463; Huine, Nests ^ Egr/s 

 Ind. B. p. 435 (1873) ; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 420; Hume, Str. F. 

 1876, p. 402 ; Fairb. Str. F. 1877, p. 407 ; Ball, Str. F. vii. p. 221 

 (1878) ; Legye, B. Ceylon, p. 682 (1870) ; Hww, Str. F. 1879, 

 p. 106; Davison, Str. F. 1883, p. 401; Taylor, Str. F. 1887, 

 p. 462 ; Terry, Str. F. 1887, p. 478. 



t All the early figures of Wattled Mynahs are very inaccurate, and so are 

 the descriptions founded on these ancient plates. It would, however, be a 

 mistake to alter names now in common use ; but it must be understood that 

 the older synonyms generally attributed to G. religiosa are somewhat proble- 

 matical. 



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