596 AVES. 



Sturnopastor nigricollis, Blyth & Walden^ Journ. As. Soc, Bengal^ vol. xliv^ 1875, extra No., 

 p. 90, 1875. 



a. Katha, lOth January 1868. 



b. $ Sawady, 28tli January 1868. 



c. Tapeng, 27th February 1868. 



d. $ Eight bank o£ Tapeng, 5th January 1875. 



e. ? Tsitkaw, 2nd February 1875. 

 /. Manwyne, 22nd May 1868. 

 g. $ Muangla, 2nd May ]86S. 



h. $ Momien, June 1868. 



This species is not so common in Upper Burma as in the high country to 

 the east of Bham6. I have a specimen of the species from the extreme east 

 of China before me, and these Burmese and Yunnan birds differ in no respect 

 from it. 



It has much the same habits as S. contra, var. superciliaris . I found it breeding 

 in the month of May in one of the few clumps of trees at Muangla. 



Genus Temenuchus, Cabanis. 

 50. Temenuchus buemanicus, Jerdon. 



Sturnia burmanica, Jerdon, Ibis, 1862, p. 21. 



Temenuchus burmanicus, Gray, Handl. B,, vol. ii, p. 20, 1870 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 149; 



Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, extra No., p. 90 ; Armstrong, Stray 



Feathers, vol. iv, 1876, p. 332. 



a. Yaylaymaw, Upper Burma, 6th January 1875. 



b. Bhamo, 24th January 1868. 



c. „ 29th „ „ 



d. „ 22nd February „ 



This species appears to be widely distributed over Burma, but I did not observe 

 it on the Chinese side of the range of hills to the east of Bhamo. 



The head, cheeks, and throat are very liable to vary in the intensity of their 

 colouring. In eight specimens before me only two have these parts white ; in all the 

 others they are greyish-white, but in these cases when the feathers are drawn aside 

 they are seen to be pm^e wliite below. 



51. Temenuchus malabaricus, Blyth. 



Le Martin vieillard de la cote de Malabar, Sonn., Voy. Ind., t. ii, p. 195, 1782. 



Malabar Thrush, Lath., Gen. Syn., vol. ii, pt. 1, p. 30, 1783. 



Turdus malabaricus , Gm., Syst. Nat., t. i, pt. II, p. 816, 1788. 



Acridotheres malabaricus, Bonn. et. VieiU., Ene. Meth., p. 691, 1823 ; Pears., Journ. As. Soc, 



Bengal, vol. x, p. 649, 1841. 

 Pastor pagodarum, Wagler, Syst. Av. Pastor, sp. 8, 1827 ; Mc'Clell., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1839, p. 163. 

 Maifia affinis, Hodgs., Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. v, p. 771, 1836. 

 Pastor cinereus, Jerdon, Madr. Journ., vol. xi, p. 23, 1840. 



