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white feathers are present on these parts, and these, coupled with 

 the white bastard-primary, will suffice to indicate the species. 



The dimensions and cblours of the bill &c. are the same as in 

 S. malabarica. 



Distribution. Pegu and Tenasseriin down to about the latitude 

 of Muleyit mountain. 



Habits, fyc. Breeds at the same time as S. malabarica and lays 

 similar eggs. 



540. Sturnia andamanensis. The Andaman Myna. 



Temenuchus andamanensis, Tytler, Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 329 ; Ball, 



S. F. \, p. 75 ; Hume, S. F. ii, p. 248. 

 Sturnia andamanensis (Tytler), Walden, Ibis, 1873, p. 313, pi. xii, 



fig. 2 ; Hume, Cat. no. 689 ter. 

 Poliopsar andamanensis, Sharps, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 47. 



Coloration. Head, neck all round, and entire lower plumage 

 white, the flanks, vent, and under tail-coverts tinged with buff ; 

 back and scapulars pale grey ; rump and upper tail-coverts paler 

 grey, faintly tinged with fulvous ; wings and tail glossy black, the 

 latter tipped with white, the four middle feathers narrowly, the 

 others more broadly ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white. 



Legs and feet usually pale yellow, rather a lemon-yellow, but 

 sometimes tinged fleshy ; claws horny ; bill greenish yellow, the 

 upper mandible from the posterior margin of the nostrils to the 

 gape, and the lower mandible from the gape nearly to the angle 

 of the gonys, smalt-blue ; iris from opalescent white to very pale 

 blue (Hume}. 



Length about 9 ; tail 3'3 : wing 4; tarsus 1 ; bill from gape 1*15.. 



Distribution. The Andamans and Nicobars. 



541. Sturnia erythropygia. The Nicobar Myna. 



Sturnia erythropygia, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv, pp. 34, 369 (1846) j id. 



Cat. p. 110; Hume, Cat. no. 689 quat. 



Temenuchus (Sturnia) erythropygia (Blyth), Ball, S. F. i, p. 76. 

 Temenuchus erythropygius (Blyth), Hume, S. F. ii, p. 247. 

 Poliopsar erythropygius (Blyth), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii ; p. 48. 



Coloration. Resembles S. andamanensis and only differs in having 

 the rump, upper tail-coverts, vent, under tail-coverts, and the tips 

 of the tail-feathers deep chestnut. 



Legs and feet pale fleshy yellow; bill gamboge-yellow, smalt- 

 blue at base ; iris opalescent-white (Hume}. 



Length 9'25 ; tail 3'25; wing 4'4 ; tarsus 1; bill from gape 1*2. 



Distribution. Car Nicobar Island, where one specimen, now in 

 the British Museum, was shot by Mr. V. Ball in March. No 

 other specimen of this bird appears to have been procured by any 

 naturalist since Blyth's type was described. 



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