MYNAS S5 



members of the mixed company that attends these 

 drinking bouts. A few stray specimens of Temenu- 

 chus pagodarum, the beautiful black-headed myna so 

 abundant in Southern India (Plate II.), and of the 

 bank-rnyna, Acridotheres ginginianus, also make their 

 appearance at the same time. I have never seen the 

 common starling in the open near Calcutta. Large 

 numbers of specimens are brought into the bazaars 

 of the town in winter, but they are all derived from 

 Behar. Blyth records the visits of flocks of rose- 

 pastors to the flowering silk- cotton-trees, but, what- 

 ever may have been the case in his time, they 

 would seem now to be very rare birds in the 

 neighbourhood of Calcutta. Owing to its very 

 conspicuous plumage and habits, it is very unlikely 

 to escape notice, but I find no note of its occurrence 

 in the records of thirty years' observation. 



