648 Birds in the Museum of the Asiatic Society. []No. 116. 



92. Loxia Astrilda, Wax-bill Grosbeak. 



Loxia Astrilda. Lin. I. 303. Gm. Lin. L 852. Turton's Lin. L 520. 



Wax-billed Grosbeak. Lath. V. 257. 



Coccothraustes Astrilda. Shaw's Gm. Zool. XIV. 87. 



Gros-bec Astrild. Diet. Class. D'Hist. Nat. VIL 520. 



93. Fam. Sturnidje. 



Genus Acridotheres, (?) Vieillot. 



Sp. A. Varius? — Pied Grakle. 



Chinese collection. 



Pied Grakle. Lath. Gen. Hist. IH. 169. Shaw's Zool. VIL 464. 

 94. Genus Sturnus. Lin. 

 Sp. S. Vulgaris. — Common Starling. 



Chinese collection. 



Sturnus Vulgaris. Lin. I. 290. Gm. Lin. L 801. Turton's Lin. 

 L 487. Steph. Shaw's Zool. X. 483. XIV. 52. 



Common Stare. Lath. Gen. Hist. V. 1. Griffith's Cuv. VII. 172. 



I have never seen the common Starling in Bengal ; but in the cold 

 season 1837-38, a specimen was brought me at Juanpore ; in no wise 

 differing, as I thought, from the English bird. 



95. Acridotheres Tristis. — Common Mynha. 



Shot by the Curator, and mounted in the Museum. 



Paradisea Tristis. Lin. I. 167. Gm. Lin. I. 401. Turt. Lin. 

 L 242. 



Paradise Grakle. Lath. Gen. Hist. VII. 147. Shaw's Zoo). VII. 455. 



Acridotheres Tristis. Steph. Shaw. XIV. 57. 



" This species is exceedingly numerous, and is generally diffused 

 throughout India, even the sparrow is not more frequent ; in its man- 

 ners it is as noisy, and nearly as familiar ; like that bird it not unusually 

 makes its nest in the house thatch, or between the rafters. It is very 

 prolific, and has several broods during the year, A pair made their 

 nest in the beams of my verandah, during the rainy season of 1822, 

 and to my surprise had two successive broods within a very short pe- 

 riod of each other ; but the vermin was so numerous that I was 

 obliged to have the nest destroyed, and the crevice filled up. It 

 is a brisk lively bird, apt to learn words and to whistle, and withal 

 becomes very attached to its master ; so much so, that instances are 



