22 Mr. T. C. Jerdoii on Birds from Upper Burmah. 



and less robust form to Sturnia, but approaching Sturno-pastor 

 in its red bill and habits. It is a Ground-Mynah, of familiar 

 habits, feeding in the compounds and about villages in Upper 

 Burmah, and breeding in holes in old trees. At the pairing 

 season it is generally in pairs; afterwards small flocks of them 

 are seen together, and many resort together in the same tree. 

 It is rather a silent bird, but has the usual Mynah-like call when 

 it takes wing. It feeds chiefly on insects. 



(4.) Sturnia nemoricola, Jerdon, n. sp. 



Head, nape, face, and whole lower parts white ; the back of the 

 neck, back, and wings ashy, tinged with ferruginous on the upper 

 tail-coverts ; quills black ; secondaries the same, edged with grey 

 externally; winglet, and a spot on the greater coverts, pure 

 white ; thigh-coverts tinged with rusty ; tail-feathers blackish on 

 the inner web, more or less grey externally, and tipped with 

 chestnut, increasing in extent from about ^th of an inch on the 

 middle feathers to | inch on the outer tail-feathers. Bill blue at 

 the base, then green, with the tip yellow. Irides glaucous white ; 

 legs dull yellow. Length 7f to 8 inches; expanse 12|^; wing 

 4 ; tail 2-^ ; bill | ; tarsus ^. 



This is a typical Sturnia, and, like my S. blythii and S. mala- 

 harica, keeps entirely to th£ forests and to the tops of the trees. 

 It has a pleasant warbling song. 



(5.) Chrysomma altirostre, Jerdon, n. sp. 



Above pale reddish brown, deepest on the wings and tail ; 

 forehead and streak over the eye hoary grey ; beneath whitish, 

 tinged on the lower part of breast, abdomen, and flanks with 

 pale fulvescent ; quills and tail-feathei's slightly dusky on their 

 inner webs ; under wing-coverts pale ferruginous. Bill fleshy 

 horny ; legs fleshy ; irides dark brown, with an outer circle of 

 white ; eyelids pale sulphur-yellow. Length Q>~ inches ; expanse 

 7i ; wing 2|; tail 3; bill |, ^ inch high ; tarsus 1. 



This interesting bird is very closely allied to Chrysomma si- 

 nense, for a young bird of which I at first glance mistook it. It 

 differs however in some important particulars, more especially in 

 the depth of the bill, in which it makes an approach to the Pora- 

 doxornis group. The claws are more lengthened and less curved 



