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_ Hab. — Throughout India to Assam, Burmah and Ceylon, and a re- 

 sident everywhere; breeding in holes of trees, roofs of houses and 

 almost anywhere, except on the ground, from June to August. Eggs 

 4, of a glossy pale green, greeuish or deep bluish green colour. 



Acridotheris ginginianus, ia^/i; iey. 0. A. t. 95-2; Jerd.B. 



Ind. ii. p. 32(), No. 685; Murray, Hdbk., Zool, Sfc, Sind, p. 175.— Thb 

 Bank Myna. 



Head, nape, sides of the face, lores and ear-coverts black ; chin, 

 throat, breast, flanks and outer thigh-coverts cinereous or dark ashy ; 

 neck, the back, rump and upper tail-coverts dark ashy ; wings black, 

 edge of wing and wing spot orange buff or ferruginous ; tail black, 

 the feathers tipped with dull ferruginous ; middle of abdomen, vent, 

 under tail, and inner thigh-coverts pale ferruginous ; bill yellow, red 

 at the tip ; orbits and nude spot behind the eye red; feet dull yellow. 



Length. — 8-5 to 9 inches, wing 5, tail 3-25, bill at front 1-25. 



Hab. — India generally to Assam and Barmah ; common in Sind, 

 Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Central India, Deccan, 

 Concan, Kutch, Kattiawar and Jodhpore. 



Gen. Temenuchus.— (7ai. 



Characters same as those of Acridotherii. Bill less stout, barely de- 

 flected at the tip; 1st and 2nd primaries sub-equal; head usually 

 crested. 



Temenuchus pagodarum, Omel. -, Lev. 0. A. t. 95 ; Gal des Ois. 



t. 148; Jerdov, B. Ind. ii. p. 329, No. 687; Murray, Str. F. vol.. vii. 

 pp. 112, 113; id. Hdbk., Zool., 8jX., Sind, p. 176. — The Black-headei>. 

 Myna. 



Head, with the long crest, nape and lores black ; ear-coverts, sides of 

 the neck and behind, breast and abdomen, fulvous or pale orange buff, 

 the feathers with mesial whitish streaks ; back, scapulars, outer webs of 

 secondaries and tertiaries grey, the innermost tertiaries entirely grey ; 

 primaries dark brown, edged black on their outer webs ; edge of wing, 

 under wing, and under tail-coverts and the vent white ; tail dark 

 brown, the feathers broadly tipped white; the centre feathers grey lik& 

 the back ; bill bluish at base, rest yellow ; irides whitish ; legs bright 

 yellow. 



Length. — 8'5 to 9 inches, wing 4'2, tail 3, bill at front 0-37. 



Hab. — India, Ceylon, Cashmere, Assam, Burmah ; common in 

 Southern India and in the Carnatic, Travancore and the Northern 

 Circars. Occurs also in Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Deccan and 

 Concan, but not in any numbers; usually in company with Acridotheris 

 tristis. 



Gen. Pastor.— Ttni. 



Bill short, cornpressed, curving from the base, slightly deflected at 

 the tip; groove of nostrils clothed with short plumes ; 2nd quill longest, 

 1st spurious; tarsi scutate; tail even ; head with an occipital crest. 



