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60 This Grackle is fairly common, but it keeps more to the jungle 

 Xahara i^^n near cultivation. It breeds, as a rule, in a hole very high up in 



^y°^* a tree, from April to June, laying two or three eggs. Their note is 

 very loud. 



Genus Calornis (Gray, 1841), 



No. 527. Caloknis chalybeius (Horsf.)— The Glossy Calornig. 



Hume, "N. and E,," 2nd Ed., Yol. I, p. 367 ; Hume and Dav., 



"S. F.," Vol. VI, p. 2>2L-~Colornis affinis.—lng\h, " S. F.," Vol. V, 



p. 38.— Calornis tytleri.—Uiime, " S. F./' Vol. I, p. 480 ; id., Vol. II, 



p. 253. 



61 This bird is fairly common here. The young are streaked on the 

 lower plumage. The irides in the adults are of a pretty crimson. They 

 go about in small flocks and breed in holes of trees, laying three eggs. 



Family Sturnidce. 



Genus Sturnia (Lesson, 1837). 



No. 538. Stuknia malabarica (Gmel.) — The Grey-headed Myna. 



Hume, " N. and B.," 2nd Ed., Vol. I, p. 372 ; Hume, "■ S. F.," 



Vol. XI, p. 265 ; Dav,, " S. F.," Vol.X, p. M)l.~Temenuchus mala- 



haricus. —Jnglis, " S. F.," Vol. V, p. 38. 



62 This myna is exceedingly common, going about in large flocks. 

 Poway. These mynas vary greatly in colour, some being of a ruddy tinge on 



the breast, others only having a fulvous appearance. 

 Genus Ampeliceps (Blyth, 1842). 



No. 543. Ampelicbps coronatus (Blyth)— The Gold-crest Myna. 



Hume, *' N. and E.," 2nd Ed., Vol. I, p. 374 ; Arms, and Hume, 

 " S. F.," Vol. IV, p. 335 ; Hume and Dav., " S. F.," Vol. VI, 

 p. 398 ; Inglis, " S. F.," Vol. IX, p. 256 ; Hume, " S. F.," Vol. XI, 

 p. 269. 



63 Only one year I saw this bird, when for some evenings large flocks 

 Beng. 



Huldi matha came into our coolie lines, where there are large clumps of bamboos. 



^ ^°^' I first noticed them from ray bungalow, and not being able to recog- 

 nize them, I went down with my gun and shot a few. They came 

 in flocks of from twenty to fifty, and I think there were six different 

 flocks. When at a distance they kept very high up, but as they came 

 nearer the bamboos they circled round closer and then with one sweep 

 vanished into the bamboos. I had to shoot them when they circled, 

 as after circling they were in the bamboos before one had time to 



