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white collar, is said to be found in Munipur, which is not British territory ; it is 

 possible however that it may be found in Tenasserim. 



915. Acridotheres siamensis, Swinhoe, P. z. S. 1863, p. 303 ; 



Wald. in Blyth, B. Burm. p. 90 ; id., Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 203 ; Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 460 ; Hume and Davison, Sir. F. vi. p. 388 ; Anders.^ 

 Yunnan Expcd. p. 594; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 106 ; ix. p. 285 ; Oates, B+ 

 Br. Burm. i. p. 381. The SIAMESE MYNAH. 



Upper plumage black, lower blackish brown, except the under tail coverts, 

 which are pure white with black bases ; tail black, broadly tipped with white ; 

 wings black, glossed with bronze, the primaries with a large patch of white 

 near their bases. Feathers of the head very narrow and pointed; frontal 

 plumes long, about 0*75 inch. Bill orange yellow ; irides pale chocolate; legs 

 dusky yellow. (War dlaw- Ramsay, ex. Oates, B. Burm.) 



Length. 10 inches ; wing 5*2 ; tail 3*5 ; tarsus I '5 ; bill from gape 1*3. 



Hab. Karenne, at an elevation of 3,000 feet, where it was obtained by 

 Capt. Wardlaw-Ramsay. It is found in Siam and abundantly so in Cochin- 

 China. Dr. Anderson, Oates says, found it at Bhamo in Native Burmah. 



Gen. Sturnia Less. 



General characters same as those of Acridotheres. Bill less stout, barely 

 deflected at tip ; ist and 2nd primaries sub-equal; head usually crested. 



916. Sturnia pagodarum (Gmel.), Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 329, No. 687 ; 



Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 432 ; Ball, Sir. F. ii. p. 419. Sturnia 

 pagodarum, Blyth, B. Burm. p. 90; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 677 ; Hume, S/r. 

 F. viii. p. 106. Temenuchus pagodarum, Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 179; 

 Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 382. Turdus pagodarum, Gmel., Sysf. Nat. i. 

 p. 816. The BLACK-HEADED MYNAH. 



Head, with the long crest, nape and lores black ; ear coverts, sides of the 

 neck and behind, breast and abdomen, fulvous or pale orange buff, the feathers 

 with mesial whitish streaks ; back, scapulars, outer webs of secondaries and 

 tertiaries grey, the innermost tertiaries entirely grey; primaries dark brown, 

 edged with black on their outer webs ; edge of wing under wing, and under tail 

 coverts and the vent white ; tail dark brown, the feathers broadly tipped white ; 

 the centre feathers grey like the back. Bill bluish at base, rest yellow ; irides 

 whitish ; legs bright yellow. 



Length. 8'5 to 9 inches ; wing 4-2 ; tail 3 ; bill at front 0*37. 



Hab. India. Ceylon, Cashmere, Assam, Burmah ; common in Southern 

 India and in the Carnatic ; also Travancore and the Northern Circars. Occurs 

 also in Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Deccan and Concan, but not in any 

 numbers ; usually in company with Acridotheres tristis. 

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