STURNINA, 257 
_Upper parts grey ; the forehead and throat whitish, the feathers 
being centred white, and the former occasionally pure white ; 
entire under parts, from the foreneck, ferruginous-buff (some of 
the feathers of the breast also centred with whitish), deep-colored 
in old males, faint in young and in females; quills black, the 
inner web deep-brown, the primaries slightly glossed and faintly 
tipped with grey, the rest dusky, successively more broadly 
tipped with deep ferruginous. The colors fade much by abrasion, 
and become more nearly uniform. 
The young birds are nearly all grey, lighter beneath and with 
rufous tips to the outer tail-feathers. 
The Grey-headed Myna occurs during the cold weather in 
the Deccan. It has also been recorded from Mount Aboo. 
Sturnia blythi, Jerdon. 
689.—Temenuchus blythi, Jerd.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. 
II, p. 331; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 414. 
THE WHITE-HEADED MYNA. 
Length, 8°5; wing, 4:2; tail, 3; tarsus, 1; bill at front, 0°7. 
Bill greenish, yellow at tip, bluish at base; irides greyish- 
white ; legs reddish-yellow. 
Whole head with long crest, neck, throat and breast, silky- 
white; back and scapulars grey; belly and under tail-coverts 
deep rufous; wing-coverts and outer web of most of the quills 
and all the tertiaries also grey ; quills black, grey tipped; central 
tail-feathers dark-grey, blackish at the base, the outer feathers 
deep ferruginous-brown, dusky towards the base. 
The White-headed Myna is common about Belgaum during 
the rains. - 
Genvs, Pastor, Temm. 
Bill short, compressed, curving from the base, very slightly 
hooked at the tip; gonys straight ; nostrils partially concealed by 
fine frontal plumes; wings long, pointed; first quill longest, 
second sub-equal, third a little shorter; tail nearly even; tarsus 
rather short ; lateral toes slightly unequal; head adorned with a 
long pendent occipital crest. 
Pastor roseus, i722. 
690.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 833; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 495; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 414; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 180; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 128. 
THE ROSE-COLORED STARLING. 
Length, 9 to 9:5; expanse, 14; wing, 4°5 to 5°25 ; tail, 2°75 to 3; 
tarsus, 1:2; bill at front, 0°7; bill from gape, 1°12. 
Bill pinkish, brown at tip, orange-yellow at base ; irides deep 
brown ; legs dusky-reddish. 
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