622 Dr. C. B. Ticehurst on [Ibis, 



Starling, and the sheens are characteristic and constant. 

 The winter spotting and the jnvenile phiniage are much the 

 same as in the typical race, the size is smaller than in 

 the other races. Wings measure 110-120 ; bill 25'5-27 ; 

 tarsus 27*5-29'5 mm. 



Iris in male brown, in female bright gold. Old records of 

 Sturnus ambiguus and purpurascens in Sind refer largely to 

 this race. 



Tememichus pagodarum (Gmel.). 



Murray states that he shot a specimen of the Black- 

 headed Mynah out of a flock of Rosy Pastors at Trainhi on 

 the Manchar Lake on 27 November, 1877 ; Butler obtained 

 one in the Lyarree Gardens at Karachi on 13 November in 

 the same year. Barnes (J. Bombay N. H. S. v. ]). 108), 

 probably referring to these records, states that it is very rare 

 in Sind. 



I met with this species several times. At Malir 12 miles 

 east of Karachi there is an extensive dry river on the banks 

 of which a considerable amount of veoetable and mano-o 

 cultivation is carried on, and here I found that a few pairs 

 of Black-headed Mynahs are resident ; when I first dis- 

 covered them on 15 May they were evidently nesting and 

 were using old nesting-holes of the Sind Pied Woodpecker. 

 They struck me as being peculiarly local, and it was oi)ly in 

 two places in several miles of cultivation that I met with 

 them, and the}' haunted the same spots the next year. In 

 winter they would seem to wander locally, as I have twice 

 seen single birds amongst flocks of Starlings, Pastors, and 

 Mynahs at the Karachi Sewage Farm, viz. on 28 March and 

 29 December, 1919. I cannot dift'ereutiate Sind birds from 

 those from the type locality. 



Acridotheres tristis tristis (L.). " Myna." 



Like the House-Sparrow the Common Mynah is found 

 throughout the Province in the immediate vicinity of habit- 

 ations, and its numbers are in proportion to the latter. In 

 bare desert and thick jungle it is rare or absent, and in some 



