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27 (521). Oriolus melanocephalus. The Indian Black- 
headed Oriole. 
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Siamese, yn aw wana aau (Nok khamin liiang-on). 
Description. Length, up to 241 mm. (9.5. in.). Male. Head, 
neck, chin and throat black ; remainder of body rich yellow; primary 
coverts black with yellow tips; quills black, all but the first primary 
with yellowish tips which become successively larger on the secondaries 
and tertiaries ; tail yellow, except the middle pair of feathers which are 
black on their terminal half, with a yellow tipping, and the next two 
pairs which are partly black. Female. As above, but the yellow of 
the breast and back is duller, with sometimes a greenish tinge. 
Tris crimson. Bill pinkish. Mouth flesh-colour. Legs plumbeous. 
In young birds the yellow parts are greenish, and the black 
parts brownish to brownish black, except the chin and throat which 
are whitish with dark brown stripes—traces of the stripes being also 
visible on the breast. The iris is brown to reddish brown, and the 
bill blackish brown. 
Habits ete. Similar to those of the last species. 
Distribution. So far as Bangkok is concerned this appears to 
be a rare bird, as I have only obtained a single specimen, an immature 
male, which I shot in my garden in/February 1914. It appears, how- 
ever, to be common almost throughout the country, as it is recorded 
by Gyldenstolpe from Eastern, Central and Northern Siam, while 
Robinson and Kloss state that they cbtained a pair in Pulau Lankawi 
(an island off the coast of Kedah, at that time under Siamese protec- 
tion), but apparently did not meet with it on the mainland, in Trang, 
It is also reported from the Ratburi and Petchaburi Monthons by 
Gairdner, and I have obtained it both at Koh Lak and at Sriracha in 
November and December. 
Family. STURNIDAE—Starlings and Mynas. 
28 (536), Sturnia sinensis. Ze Chinese Myna., 
Description. Length, up to 203 mm. (8 in.). Forehead 
whitish with a ferruginous tinge ; chin whitish; rest of body grey, 
darkest on back and paling almost to white on lower part of abdo- 
men, the flanks and upper tail-coverts sometimes with a ferru- 
ginous tinge; wing-coverts white, slightly tinged with ferrugi- 
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