370 



specimens with vinous ; axillaries, under wing coverts, the bases of the pri- 

 maries and greater coverts white ; primaries black on the outer and brownish 

 on their inner webs ; secondaries and their coverts bronze-brown ; scapulars, 

 back and lesser wing coverts black, with in some lights greenish reflections ; 

 upper tail coverts pinkish white or vinous buff ; tail black, all the feathers 

 broadly tipped with white, the central pair very narrowly so. Bill orange, 

 reddish at the base, yellower at the tip ; legs and feet yellow ; orbital skin 

 below the eye extending behind for about half an inch blue black. 



Le?igfh.g\.Q 10 inches; wing 4-75 to 5-1 ; tail 3 to 3-4; tarsus 1*28 to 

 1*4; bill from forehead I to ri. 



Hob. Cochin-China, British Burmah and the hilly frontier dividing Tavoy 

 from Siam. 



921. Stumia malabarica (Gruel.*), Blyth and Wald., B. Burm. 

 p. 90 ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 380; Oates, -SVr. F. vii. p. 48 ; Hume, 

 Str. F. viii. p. 106; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 387. Turdus malabaricus, 

 Gm., Syst.Nat. i. p. 816. Temenuchus malabaricus, Jerd^ B, Ind. ii. 

 p. 330 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 433; Ball, Str. F. ii. p. 419; Armstrong, 

 Str.F.iv. p. 332; Anderson, Yunnan Ex ped. p. 596. The GREY-HEADED 

 MYNAH. 



Male in new Moult. Forehead, feathers over the eye and throat whitish ; 

 the whole upper plumage dark grey, tinged with ferruginous on the rump and 

 upper tail coverts ; the shafts of the feathers of the head and neck whitish j 

 winglet, primary coverts and all the primaries black, the Jatter tipped with 

 grey ; remainder of the wing blackish, all the feathers tipped and edged on 

 the outer web with grey ; the central pair of tail feathers grey, the others brown 

 at the base and tipped with dark ferruginous ; cheeks and ear coverts pale 

 rufous grey ; chin, throat and upper breast rufous grey, the feathers with 

 white centres ; rest of the lower plumage deep ferruginous, darker on the under 

 tail coverts. Bill blue at base, greenish in the middle and yellow at the tip ; 

 leg brownish yellow; claws greenish; iris light blue. 



Length. % inches ; wing 4- 1 to 4*2 ; tail 2-7 to 2-09; tarsus 0-9; bill from 

 gape i. 



Later on, abrasion of the feathers begins and the colours fade, the grey becom- 

 ing brownish and the ferruginous of the lower surface fading into pale rufous. 



//#. The Indo-Burmese countries, and a great portion of the Indian 

 Peninsula. Gates says it is spread over Arrakan, the southern portion of 

 Pegu, and in some parts of Tenasserim. Common all over Rangoon, also in 

 Northern India, and in Lower Bengal, extending to the N.-W. Provinces and 

 Central India, where it is found in small numbers. In South India and along 

 the Rutnagherry coast it is only a winter visitant. It also occurs in Assam in 

 small numbers. Like its congeners it lives on various fruits, seeds, insects, &c. 

 Its nidificalion, too, is not unlike that of its congeners in every particular. 



