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 THE COMMON OR HOUSE MYNA. 



The Common Myna requires very little description, being a 

 common and very familiar bird round our houses and compounds, 

 thinking every suitable hole or corner its own particular property for 

 nesting purposes. A cheery bird with a great idea of its own im- 

 portance, but a horrible nuisance in the way it bores one with endless 

 chatter accompanied by a continued bobbing of the head. It is a 

 brown bird with a blackish head and breast, a conspicuous patch of 

 white feathers in its wings and a bright yellow naked patch round its 

 eye. It nests in any convenient hole in a tree or building, making an 

 untidy nest of straw, feathers, etc., laying four or five spot'ess pale 

 blue eggs. 



Burmese nameZayet. 



(No. 549. A. tristis.) 



THE JUNGLE MYNA. 



The Jungle Myna at first slight is very like the last, but wants the 

 two naked patches on the cheeks and has, instead, a small curl of 

 feathers over the base of its bill. Top of the head black, back and 

 body reddish brown, chin, throat and breast, ashy brown. 



It is very common bird in many parts of Burma, especially round 

 Rangoon, where it has taken to disputing the corners of bungalows 

 with the Common Myna. In other parts of Burma it is a regular 

 jungle b'rd. 



Burmese name -Tau-zayet. 

 (No. 552, A. fuscus.) 



THE SIAMESE MYNA 



The Siamese Myna is a very handsome bird with a conspicuous 

 curl of long black feathers over its yellow beak. With the exception 

 of a white patch on the wings and the tips of the tail, its entire 

 plumage is almost entirely black. A very common bird in many 

 localities, preferring open country, or the endless kine-grass plains of 

 Northern Burma. It is especially common in the Shan States, Bhamo, 

 Myitkyina and Upper Chindwin districts. 



It has the curious habit of breeding in colonies together with the 

 next species, both nesting in hundreds in holes along the sandy banks 

 of the Upper Chindwin and in the sides of the Fort ditch at Bhamo. 

 It also nests in holes of trees and houses. 



Burmese name Chive-zayet. 

 (No, 553. A. grandis.) 



THE COLLARED MYNA. 



The Collared Myna is found in exactly the same localities, and 

 has the same habits as the last, 



