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axillaries white ; primaries dark brown, tipped paler, arid the bases 

 of all pure white ; primary-coverts white, with a little black near 

 the bases of the outer feathers ; secondaries, tertiaries, and wing- 

 coverts bronze, each feather very narrowly margined with black on 

 the outer web ; first primary black. 



Iris dark brown ; eyelids and naked skin of the head slaty brown ; 

 the gape, the basal half of the lower mandible and the base of the 

 upper mandible black ; the remainder of the bill red ; mouth dark 

 blue ; legs and claws dusky orange-yellow. 



Length 9 ; tail 3*1 ; wing 4'6 ; tarsus 1*3 ; bill from gape 1'2. 



Distribution. Burma from Bhiimo down to Rangoon, and eastward 

 to Toungngoo and Karennee *. 



Habits, fyc. Common as this Myna is in many parts of Burma, I 

 failed to secure its nest and eggs, or to notice any indications of 

 its breeding. Jerdon observes that it breeds in holes in old trees. 



548. Graculipica leucocephala. Humes Myna. 



Acridotheres leucocephalus, Gigl. 8f Salv. Atti R. Ace, So. di Tor. v, 



p. 273 (1870) ; iid. Ibis, 1870, p. 185. 



Sturnia incognita, Hume, S. F. viii, p. 396 (1879) ; ix, p. 295. 

 Sturiiia leucocephala (O. # S.), Oates, B. B. i, p. 386. 

 Poliopsar leucocephalus ( G. $r &), Sharps, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 46, 



pi. iv, fig. 2. 



Coloration. Resembles G. burmanica, but has the forehead and 

 crown brownish ; back, scapulars, and upper rump ashy black ; 

 lower rump buff; hind neck and sides of neck vinous, forming a 

 collar which joins the breast ; wings darker, and the primary- 

 coverts entirely white ; first primary white. In freshly-moulted 

 birds the forehead and crown are paler than at other times, almost 

 white. 



Bill and legs yellow ; the former reddish orange at the base ; iris 

 brown (Giylioli and Salv ado ri). 



Length about 10; tail 3'2; wing 5-2; tarsus 1*35; bill from 

 gape 1-2. 



Distribution. Said by Hume to have been obtained on the hills 

 between Tavoy and Siam, and there are numerous specimens in his 

 collection from this locality. This species occurs in Siam, and 

 was first found at Thu Due near Saigon, in Cochin China. 



* Poliopsar fuscogularis, Salvador! (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) vii, p. 3(U, 1889), 

 does not appear to be separable from the present species. Thanks to the 

 courtesy of Count Salvador!, I have been able to examine the type, the only 

 specimen known, procured by Mr. Fea in Karennee. This has "the chin and 

 throat dark brown and the head and neck brownish, instead of white. These 

 parts are subject to variation in this Myna, and before I can admit P. fusco- 

 yularis to be a distinct species or even race I should wish to examine more 

 specimens in the same plumage. It must be remembered that Wardlaw Eamsay 

 procured typical G. burmanica in Karennee. (See also Sharpe, Ibis, 1889, 

 p. 580.) 



