THE STARLINGS OR MYNAHS. AT 
or given away, if they show no signs of a budding 
talent for acquiring language. 
Albinism is not very uncommon in this Mynah ; I 
have seen two white ones with pink eyes, and two 
others with eyes of the normal colour (a speckled grey), 
which afterwards reverted, one completely, and the 
other partially, to the natural colour; this being likely 
to happen when the eyes of a white bird are not pink. 
The House-Mynah has been introduced into several 
other countries—Mauritius, the Andamans, the Sand- 
wich Islands, Australia, and New Zealand. Only in 
the Sandwich [slands has he proved an _ undesirable 
colonist, as he there attacks the eggs and young of the 
native birds, many of which are only found in these 
islands. 
Toe Bank Mynan (Aeridotheres ginginianus), is 
called Ganga maina in Hindutsani, and Gang salik in 
Bengali, is smaller and slighter than the House-Mynah ; 
it has the same pattern of colour, but the tints differ. 
The head is black as in the other species, but the body- 
colour is iron-grey and the light bands on the wings and 
tail cinnamon; the bare face is bright red, and the feet 
and bill orange, instead of yellow. The young birds 
are sometimes merely dull editions of the adult, as in 
the Common Mynah, but more often differ strikingly by 
having drab heads. 
The Bank Mynah derives its name from its curious 
nesting-habits ; it burrows into banks to make its nests, 
a number of birds associating to form a colony. Itisa 
curious fact that the bird is particularly partial to the cast 
