STURNINJ!. 257 



Upper parts grey ; the forehead and throat whitish, the feathers 

 being centred white, and the former occasionally pure white ; 

 entire under parts, from the foreneck, ferruginous- buff (some of 

 the feathers of the breast also centred with whitish), deep-colored 

 in old males, faint in young and in females ; quills black, the 

 inner Web deep-brown, the primaries slightly glossed and faintly 

 tipped with grey, the rest dusky, successively more broadly 

 tipped with deep ferruginous. The colors fade much by abrasion, 

 and become more nearly uniform. 



The young birds are nearly all grey, lighter beneath and with 

 rufous tips to the outer tail-feathers. 



The Grey-headed Myna occurs during the cold weather in 

 the Deccan. It has also been recorded from Mount Aboo. 



Sturnia blythi, Jerdon. 



689. TemenucJius blythi, Jerd. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. 

 II, p. 331 ; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 414. 



THE WHITE-HEADED MYNA. 



Length, 8-5 ; wing, 4'2 ; tail, 3 ; tarsus, 1 ; bill at front, 07. 



Bill greenish, yellow at tip, bluish at base ; irides greyish- 

 white ; legs reddish-yellow. 



Whole head with long crest, neck, throat and breast, silky- 

 white ; back and scapulars grey ; belly and under tail-coverts 

 deep rufous ; wing-coverts and outer web of most of the quills 

 and all the tertiaries also grey ; quills black, grey tipped ; central 

 tail-feathers dark-grey, blackish at the base, the outer feathers 

 deep ferruginous-brown, dusky towards the base. 



The White-headed Myna is common about Belgaum during 

 the rains. 



GENUS, Pastor, Temm. 



Bill short, compressed, curving from the base, very slightly 

 hooked at the tip ; gonys straight ; nostrils partially concealed by 

 fine frontal plumes ; wings long, pointed ; first quill longest, 

 second sub-equal, third a little shorter ; tail nearly even ; tarsus 

 rather short ; lateral toes slightly unequal ; head adorned with a 

 long pendent occipital crest 



Pastor roseus, Lin. 



690. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 333 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 



Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 495; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 



IX, p. 414; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 180; 



Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 128. 

 THE ROSE-COLORED STARLING. 



Length, 9 to 9'5 ; expanse, 14 ; wing, 4'5 to 5*25 ; tail, 2*75 to 3 ; 

 tarsus, 1*2 ; bill at front, 07 ; bill from gape, 112. 



Bill pinkish, brown at tip, orange-yellow at base ; irides deep 

 brown ; legs dusky-reddish. 



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