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narrowly, the others broadly, tipped with ferruginous. After moulting the 

 rosy ferruginous fades to whitish. 



The young are uniform greyish brown-, with the wing coverts pure white. 

 Bill blue ; the mouth darker blue ; iris white ; legs plumbeous ; claws horn 

 colour. 



Length. 8 inches; wing 4; tail 2'6; tarsus ri; bill from gape i m i: 

 (Oates.) 



Hab. Cochin-China and Pegu in British Burmah during winter, retiring, it 

 is said, to Soath China in the summer, where, according to P6re David, it 

 breeds in holes of the roofs of houses. The birds, Gates met in Pegu, were 

 feeding on the ground in small flocks. 



919. Sturnia burmannica, Jerd., Ibis, 1862, p. 21 ; Blyih and 



Wald. B. Bttrm. p.QO; Hume, Str. F. viii, p. K)6; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 230; 

 id., Birds Br. Burm. i. p. 385.. Temenuchus burmannicus, Hume, Sir. F. Hi. 

 p. 149; Armstrong, Str> F. iv. p, 332. JERDQN'S MYNAH. 



Whole head and upper breast dull white ; back and scapulars ashy brown ; 

 rump and upper tail coverts paler ;. central pair of tail feathers dark ashy 

 brown, the others blackish, all broadly tipped with white; breast and abdomen.' 

 vinous ; vent and under tail coverts fulvous white ; under wing coverts and 

 axillaries white ;. primaries dark brown, tipped paler, and the bases of all pure 

 white ; primary coverts white, with a little black near the base of the outer 

 feathers ; secondaries, tertiaries and wing coverts bronze, each feather very 

 narrowly margined with black on the outer web. 



Iris da.rk brown; eyelids and naked skin, of the head slaty brown ; the gape, 

 the basal half OE the lower mandible and the base of the upper mandible black,. 

 the remainder of the bill black; mouth dark blue; legs and claws dusky 

 orange brown. 



Length, 9 inches; wing 4'6<; tail 3-1 ; tarsus 1:3; bill from gape 1/2. 



Hab. British Burmah. Gates says abundant in Pegu, especially round about 

 Thayetmyo. It has been procured at Tonghoo and in Karenne. In.the Irrawaddy 

 it has been found as far north; as Mandalay. He adds that it is a resident 

 species, and is generally found in large flocks, feeding on the ground, in 

 gardens and road sides, as well as in fields. 



920. Sturnia leucocephala, Gigi. and Saiv., Atti. R. Ace. Sc. di. 



Tor. v. p. 273; id.,. Ibis, 1870, p. 185; Oates, B. Br. Burm. \. p. 386. 

 Sturnia incognita, Hume, Str. F. viii, p. 396; ix. p. 295. HUME'S MYNAH. 



Forehead,, crown, occiput, crest and sides of the occiput dull earthy brown ; 

 chin, throat and sides of the head dusky brown ; nuchal collar vinous buff ; 

 breast, upper abdomen, sides and flanks vinous ; middle of lower abdomen, 

 vent, tibia! plumes and under tail coverts sullied white, tinged in some 



