258 LAMPROTORNINZ. 
Whole head, with crest, neck, and breast, fine glossy-black, 
with purple reflections; wings and tail black with a green 
gloss ; rest of the plumage pale-salmon or light rose-color. 
Young birds have the salmon or rose-color much dashed with 
pale-brown and fuscous, and the head not so glossy; and the 
young of the year are more or less earthy-brown, paler beneath 
and without a crest. ; 
The Rose-colored Pastor is a common cold weather visitant 
to all parts of the district. The majority of the birds met with 
are young birds in imperfect plumage. 
Sus-FAMILY, Lamprotornine. 
Bill somewhat stout, the ridge more or less curved and hooked, 
and the tip notched; nostrils more or less hidden by the close- 
set frontal plumes ; wings long or moderate, and pointed ; tarsus 
short and stout. 
GENUS, Eulabes, Cuvier. 
Bill short or moderate, stout, compressed ; culmen gradually 
curved ; tip notched ; nostrils basal, lateral, placed in a plumed 
fossa; under mandible with the base broad and dilated; frontal 
feathers short, velvety, advancing on base of bill; head with 
naked wattles ; wings long, fourth quill longest, first short; tail 
short, even ; feet strong ; tarsus equal to the middle-toe ; outer-toe 
slightly longer than inner one; claws well curved; hind-toe and 
claw large. 
Eulabes religiosa, Lin. 
692.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 337; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 414. 
THE SOUTHERN Hitt Myna. 
Length, 10; expanse, 18°5; wing, 5°6; tail, 2°'8; tarsus, 1:2 ; 
bill at front, 1. 
Bill orange; wattles deep-yellow; irides dark-brown; legs 
deep-yellow. 
General plumage glossy purplish-black, with green reflections 
on the lower back and upper tail-coverts; beneath less brightly 
glossed; wings andtail coal-black without reflections ; a white 
spot on the seven primaries, forming a conspicuous wing-spot. 
The wattles on the head commenced below each eye are cross- 
ed at the lower posterior angle of the eye, by a triangular patch 
of minute feathers, passed beyond the ear, where they form a 
rather large loose flap, or lappet, and then return in a narrow 
stripe to the top of the head. There is also a small nude patch 
below the eye. 
Is only found in the Deccan (on the Ghats), and is somewhat 
rare. 
Famity, Fringiilide. 
Bill short, thick, conic ; wings usually long, pointed ; tail moder- 
