192 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF TENASSERIM 



ever be considered more than a variety, as on the same date, 

 off the same tree, I shot one of the ordinary coloured Magpies. 



678 quat— Crypsirina varians, Lath. 



I have not found this species in the Thoungyeen valley, 

 and as far as I know it does not cross the Dawna range. 

 About Maulmain, on the Attaran, Gyne, and Houndraw rivers, 

 it is very common. 



683 bis.— Sturnopastor superciliaris/5^. 



Not a jungle bird at all. Common about Maulmain, and 

 at all the larger villages in the interior. I have seen a few 

 about Meeawuddy. 



684.— Acridotheres tristis, Lin. 

 686.— Acridotheres fuscus, Wagl. 



Both these birds are fairly common about Kaukarit, and I 

 have seen a few about Meeawuddy and near a large Shan 

 village at Koosaik. About Maulmain they abound. 



688 Us.— Sturnia nemoricola, Jerd. 



This is the representative of the Brahminy Maina in Tenas- 

 serim, and is fairly common all over the country. I have seen 

 it in the Thoungyeen valley. 



689 sext— Sturnia sturnina, Pall. 



About this bird I know nothing. My only specimen, 

 a young male, was shot out of a large flock seated on some dead 

 trees near a cultivation clearing on the banks of the Houndraw 

 river. It measures: — Length, 7 - 5 ; expanse, 13*0 ; wing, 4*1 ; 

 tail, 2-0; tarsus, 1*05; bill from gape, i*0. 



Bill plumbeous blue ; irides dark brown ; legs and feet 

 brownish green ; claws horny. 



I have not come across this bird in the Thoungyeen. 



691.— Calornis chalybaeus, Horsf. 



A southern bird, but which strays up as far as the Attaran, 

 where I shot a specimen on the 10th Februarj- 1878, near 

 Khayasee. It was among a vast number of Eulabes, Pigeons, 

 Irenas, and other birds feeding on a fig tree in fruit. I have 

 not seen it in the Thoungyeen. 



693.— Eulabes javanensis, Osbech. 



One of the commonest and most widely spread birds in the 

 province. The following is an account of its nidification : — 



