368 STURNID^. 



917. Sturnia Stumina (/V/.), Hume ami Dav., Sir. F. \i. p. 393 ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 106; Bingham, Sir. F. ix. p. 193; Gates, B. Br. 

 Burm. p. 383. Gracula sturnina, Pall. Reis. Russ. Reichs iii. p. 965 ; Gm., 

 Syst. Nat. i. p. 399 ; Wald., Trans. Zool. Socy. ix. p. 204. Sturnia dauricus, 

 Pall., Act, Holm. 1778, p. 197, t. vii. ; Gm., Syst. Nat. i. p. 806; Pal/., 

 Zoogr. Rosso. Asia/, i. p. 422. Pastor malayensis, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 103. 

 Temenuchus dauricus, Hume, Sir. F. ii. p. 249; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, 

 p. 362. Sturnia daurica, Salvad, Ucc. Born. p. 270. Calornis daurica, Bl. 

 and Wald., B. Burm. p. 91. The DAURIAN MYNAH. 



Head grey, with a spot of metallic purple on the crown ; neck, under wing 

 coverts and axillaries, also the whole lower plumage, grey ; chin and throat 

 tinged with fawn ; vent and under tail coverts buff ; back, rump and lesser 

 wing coverts metallic purple; a band of buff across the rump ; tail metallic 

 green, the outer webs of the outer pair of feathers buff ; median wing coverts 

 black, broadly tipped with white and tinged with buff ; greater coverts black, 

 edged with metallic green, the scapulars with most of their outer webs buff, 

 and the inner webs black at base and buffy brown at the ends ; primaries 

 brown, edged and tipped with metallic green, and the first few primaries further 

 edged mesially with buffy brown ; secondaries brown, edged with metallic 

 green, and with a patch of buffish brown near the base of the outer webs. 

 In some birds the grey of the head and neck is produced on to the upper 

 back, arid is streaked with brown. (Oa/es.) Legs and feet dull earthy green ; 

 the bill varies from black to brown, blue or whitish, and is greenish at the 

 base of the lower mandible. (Davison.) Irides dark brown, claws horn 

 colour. (Bingham.) 



Length. 7$ inches ; wing 4 ; tail 2 ; tarsus ri ; bill from gape \. 



Hab. Malay Peninsula, Cochin-China and the Island of Java. A winter 

 visitor to British Burmah. Gates says, Mr. Davison procured it in Tenasserim 

 from Moulmein down to Mergui, and that Captain Bingham got it on the banks 

 of the Hoongdraw River. Abundant near Tavoy, going about in small flocks. 



918. Sturnia SinensiS (Gmel.), Blyth and Walden, B. Burm. p. 91 ; 

 Dav. et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 363 ; Hume, Sir. F. vii. p. 514; viii. p. 106; 

 ix. p. 118 ; Oates, Sir. F. x. p. 229; id., Birds Br. Burm. i. p. 384. Oriolus 

 sinensis, Gm., Syst. Nat. i. p. 394. Pastor elegans, Less. Voy. Belanger, 

 ,p. 266, pi. 6. The CHINESE MYNAH.' 



Forehead, crown, lores, round the eye, the chin, rump and upper tail 

 coverts, also the flanks, under tail coverts, axillaries, and under wing coverts 

 rosy ferruginous ; nape and back deep grey ; sides of the neck, throat, breast 

 and abdomen lighter grey than the back ; ear coverts grey tinged with ferru- 

 ginous ; wings, primary coverts and winglet black ; the tertiaries suffused with 

 metallic blue, the other feathers edged with the same; wing coverts white, the 

 greater series suffused with rosy ferruginous; tail black, the middle pair 



