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922. Sturnia Blythi, Jerd., B. 2nd. ii. p. 33 i, NO. 689 ; str. F. 

 p. 391 ; Jerd.) III. Ind. Orn. pi. 22. The WHITE-HEADED MYNAH. 

 Head, crest, neck, throat and breast silky white ; back and scapulars grey ; 

 der surface of the body deep rufous ; wing coverts and outer webs of the 

 ills and all the tertiaries grey ; quills black, tipped with grey ; central 

 feathers of the tail dark grey, blackish at base, the outer feathers deep ferru- 

 ginous brown, their bases dusky. 



Bill blue at base, greenish in the centre, yellow at the tip ; irides greyish 

 white ; legs reddish yellow. 



Length. 8-5 inches; wing 4*2 ; tail 3 ; culmen 0*7 ; tarsus I. 



Hab. Malabar forests to 2,OOO feet in the Wynaad and the slopes of the 

 Ghats. Jerdon says it is found from the extreme south of the Malabar Coast 

 to about north lat. 15 or 16. It is entirely arboreal, living in small flocks and 

 keeping to the tops of high trees, feeding on various insects and larvae, small 

 shells, and occasionally on fruit. 



923. Sturnia nemoricola, Jerd., Ibis, 1862, p. 22 \ Biyth and 



Wald.y B. Burm. p. 91 ; Hume and Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 390; Oates, 

 Sir. F. vii. p. 48 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 106 ; Oates* B. Br. Burm. i. p. 389. 

 Temenuchus leucopterus, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 48 (note). Temenuchus 

 nemoricolus, Str. F. iii. p. 151 ; Armstrong and Hume, Str. F. iv. p. 333. 

 The WHITE-WINGED MYNAH. 



Not unlike Sturnia malabarica in general appearance. After the moult, 

 the forehead and crown as far back as the eyes, also the chin, throat and 

 breast are a pearly grey ; lower plumage rosy buff ; winglet, primary coverts 

 and the first primary white. 



Length. 8 inches ; wing 4' I ; tail 2*7 ; tarsus 0*9; bill from gape I. 



Hab. British Burmah, extending into Cochin-China and to Thayetmyo in 

 the Irrawaddy Valley. S. erythropygia, Blyth, occurs in the Nicobars. 



Gen. Calomis. G. 7?. Gray. 

 General characters as in Sturnia ; plumage glossy black. 



924. CalorniS Chalybea (Horsf.), Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 271 ; Blyth 

 and Wald., B. Burm. p. 91; Tweed., Ibis, 1877, p. 318; Hume and Dav., 

 Str. F. vi. p. 394; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 101. Turdus chalybeus, Horsf., 

 Trans. Lin. Soc. xiii. p. 148: Wald., Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 79. Turdus 

 strigatus, Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 307. Calornis affinis (A. Say), 

 Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. pp. 36, 369; id., B. Burm. p. 91 ; Wald., Ibis, 1875, 

 p. 461. Calornis Irwini, Hu?ne, Str. F. i. p. 481. Calornis Tytleri, Hume, 

 Str. F. i. p. 480; vi. p. 396. The GLOSSY BLACK MYNAH. 



