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base ; tail also black, white-tipped, most broadly on the outer 
feathers ; beneath, the throat and breast dull cinereous-blackish ; _ 
abdomen reddish-cinereous, paling in the centre, whitish on the 
vent, and the under tail-coverts pure white; the secondaries are 
glossed with bronze towards their end. 
This Myna is a permanent resident in the more hilly districts 
of the Deccan. The only difference between mahrattensis and 
fuscus is that the irides of the former are pale-blue, while those 
of the latter are yellow. 
Genus, Sturnia, Lesson. 
Bill short, compressed, less stout than in Acridotheres, bare, 
deflected at the tip, often parti-colored ; wings moderate, first and 
second primaries sub-equal; tail nearly even; tarsus short ; 
lateral toes slightly unequal; claws more curved; head usually 
crested. : 
Sturnia pagodarum, G'm. 
687.—Temenuchus pagodurum, Gm.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. II, p. 329; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, 
p. 494; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 414; Murray’s 
Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 179; Swinhoe and Barnes, 
Central. India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 128. 
THE BLACK-HEADED Myna. 
Brahmani Myna, Hin. ; Powi, Hin. 
Length, 75 to 8:5; expanse, 12°5; wing, 4 to 425; tail, 2°5 
to 3; tarsus, 1 to 1:2 ; bill at front, 0°6; bill from gape, 0°9. 
Bill greenish-yellow at tip, blue at base; irides greenish- 
white ; legs bright-yellow. i. 
Head and long pendent crest black ; body above grey ; beneath 
and ear-coverts bright fulvous-buff, with some mesial pale streaks ; 
wings blackish, with a white edge near the shoulder; tail dull 
black. 
The Black-headed Myna occurs throughout the district, but is 
somewhat locally distributed ; it is somewhat rare in Sind. It is 
a permanent resident, breeding from June to August, in holes in 
trees. The eggs, four or five in number, are oval in shape, pale 
bluish-white in color, and average 0°97 in length by about 0°75 
in breadth. 
Sturnia malabarica, Gm. 
688.—Temenuchus malabaricus, Gm.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. II, p. 330; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, 
p. 494; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 414. 
THE GREY-HEADED MyNa. 
Powi, Hin. 
Length, 75; wing, 4; tail, 2°5; tarsus, 1; bill at front, 0°6. 
Bill greenish-yellow at tip, bluish at base ; irides greyish-white ; 
legs dull yellow. 
