GUI). ijs'SESsonES. 



TRIBE C0NIR0STRE8. 



FAM. STURNIDjE. 



GEN. PASTOR. 

 PLATE XXII. 

 PASTOR BLYTHII. Jerdon. 

 WHITE HEADED MYNA. 



Synon. — P. 3Ialabaricus Jerdon, Catal. No. 166. 



The "White headed Myna figured here was considered by me in my Catalogue to 

 be the Malabaricus of Authors, which Wagler had erroneously identified with the female 

 of P. Pagodarum, but Mr. Blyth some time ago suggested to me that the name Malabaricus 

 more properly belonged to the grey-headed species found over all the continent of India, 

 and which I had alluded to in my Catalogue as being probably distinct from the white- 

 headed one. Mr. Strickland I see confirms this, and has suggested my naming this anew. 

 I have therefore given it the specific appellation of Blythii after the present talented and 

 indefatigable Curator of the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta. 



This bird belongs to the small division of Mynas for which Lesson has proposed 

 the name Slurnia, and which is typified by the P. Pagodarum. Their make is smaller and 

 lighter than that of the Common Mynas, and their habits in general perhaps ai'e more 

 arboreal. Mr. Blyth remarks that they are seldom seen on the ground, but this statement 

 must be qualified with regard to P. Pagodarum which feeds chiefly on the ground, and 

 often among cattle like the Common Myna, although, as I long ago remarked in my 

 Catalogue, when I did observe this bird in the Northern part of the Peninsula, it was only 

 on trees. 



