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-f 27 (521). Oriolus melanocephalus. The Indian Blade- 

 headed Oriole. 



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Siamese, iin !DWW mcifl^flflU (Nok khamin liiang-on). 



Description. Length, up to 241 mm. (9.5. in.). Male. Head, 

 neck, chin and throat black ; remainder of body rich yellow; primary 

 coverts black with yellow tips ; quills black, all but the first primary 

 with yellowish tips which become successively larger on the secondaries 

 and tertiaries ; tail yellow, except the middle pair of feathers which are 

 black on their terminal half, with a yellow tipping, and the next two 

 pairs which are partly black. Female. As above, but the yellow of 

 the breast and back is duller, with sometimes a greenish tinge. 



Iris crimson. Bill pinkish. Mouth flesh-colour. Legs plumbeous. 



In young birds the yellow parts are greenish, and the black 

 parts brownish to brownish black, except the chin and throat which 

 are whitish with dark brown stripes — traces of the stripes being also 

 visible on the breast. The iris is brown to reddish brown, and the 

 bill blackish brown. 



Habits etc. Similar to those of the last species. 



Distrihdion. So far as Bangkok is concerned this appears to 

 be a rare bird, as I have only obtained a single specimen, an immature 

 male, which I shot in my garden in February 1914. It appears, how- 

 ever, to be common almost throughout the country, as it is recorded 

 by Gyldenstolpe from Eastern, Central and Northern Siam, while 

 Eobinson and Kloss state that they obtained a pair in Pnlau Lankawi 

 (an island off the coast of Kedah, at that time under Siamese protec- 

 tion), but apparently did not meet with it on the mainland, in Trang. 

 It is also reported from the Ratburi and Petcliaburi Monthons by 

 Gairdner, and I have obtained it both at Koh Lak and at Sriracha in 

 November and December. 



Family. STURN ID AF—Staiiings and Mynas. 

 -f 28 (53G), Sturnia sinensis. The Chinese Myna. 



Description. Length, up to 203 mm. ( 8 in. ). Forehead 

 whitish with a ferruginous tinge ; chin whitish ; rest of bod}'' grey, 

 darkest on back and paling almost to white on lower part of abdo- 

 men, the flanks and upper tail-coverts sometimes with a ferru- 

 ginous tinge.; wing-coverts white, slightlj'' tinged with ferrugi- 



