from Upper Burmah, 21 



tertiaries, and a baud of the primaries, and the whole of the 

 lower parts white ; all the tail-feathers, except the four centre 

 ones, broadly and obliquely tipped with white ; the breast with a 

 gorget of shining orange-red, and the rump the same, mixed 

 with white. Bill black ; legs dark brown ; irides light brown. 

 Length 6} inches ; expanse 8 ; wing 2f ; tail S^ ; bill rather 

 more than ~ : tarsi -j^^^ ? 



lb' lb 



The female differs in having the parts that are black in the 

 male sooty brown, in wanting the breast-spot of the male, and 

 in the rump being only slightly mixed with red. 



This pretty little bird is the representative in Upper Burmah 

 of the P. erytkropygia of Southern and Central India, from which 

 it differs conspicuously in the white forehead and in the some- 

 what paler and more aurora tinge of the red on the breast and 

 rump. It is found usually in pairs or in small families, chiefly 

 in low and thorny jungles, not frequenting the dense forests. It 

 is active and restless, flitting about the smaller branches and 

 feeding on various insects, which it usually picks off from a leaf 

 or twig, now and then catching one in the air. 



(3.) Sturnia burmannica, Jerdon, n. sp. 



Head (crested), face, throat, and neck in part sullied or cine- 

 reous white; the feathers of the headjpng and very narrow ; back 

 and scapulars dingy grey, paling on the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts ; wings with the shoulders dark grey, the lesser coverts 

 glossy hair-brown, the greater coverts and secondaries pale, 

 glossed, yellowish brown, the latter deep brown on their inner 

 webs; the primary coverts mixed black and white; primaries 

 deep brown, pale at the tip, and with a white bar near the base, 

 forming a white wing-spot ; tail with the two centre feathers 

 glossy brown, the outer ones black with a broad white tip ; 

 plumage beneath, from the breast, pale vinous, albescent on the 

 middle of the belly and vent, and white on the under tail-coverts ; 

 flanks of abdomen inclining to greyish. Bill orange-red, the 

 nostrils and two-thirds of the lower mandible dusky ; orbital 

 skin blackish ; irides yellow-brown ; legs and claws deep yel- 

 low. Length 9 inches ; expanse 13| ; wing 4| ; tail 3 ; bill |i ; 

 tarsus 1^. 



This Mynah is somewhat aberrant, being allied in its colouring 



