650 Birds in the Museum of the Asiatic Society. [No. 116. 



flocks in Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, and are plentiful at Juanpore^ 

 near Benares. 



97. Acridotheres ? 



Shot by the Curator, and mounted in the Museum. 



This is the Saat Bhye, or Seven Brothers of the natives, so called 

 from being always found in a company of about that number. As 

 every body knows, it is one of the most chattering, noisyest birds in 

 India, squeaking and hopping about, now on the ground, then upon a 

 tree, the flock being constantly on the move ; when one starts, all the rest 

 follow it, one after another, making generally but a short flight of not 

 more than 40 or 50 yards at a time ; and when alighted they hold a 

 sort of consultation, hopping and squeaking about all the time, till after 

 a few minutes they move ofi" to another tree, and so on for the greater 

 part of the day, rarely staying for more than half an hour in the same 

 place : they feed on insects. It is common wherever I have been in the 

 plains of India. 



98. Acridotheres Calvus. — Bald Mynha. 

 Chinese Collection. 



Gracula Calva. Lin. I. 164. Gm. Lin. I. 396. Turt. Lin. I. 240. 

 Bald Grakle. Shaw's Zool- VIL 461. Lath. Gen. Hist. III. 146. 

 Acridotheres Calvus. Steph. Shaw's Zool. XIV. 57. 



99. Gen. Cracticus, Vieillot. 



(7. Chalyheus. — The Green Paradise Bird. 



Chines collection. 



Paradisea Viridis. Gm. Lin. I. 402. Turt. Lin. I. 244. 



Chalyhean Paradise Bird. Shaw's Zool. VII. 504. 



Blue-green Paradise Bird. Lath. Gen. Hist. III. 195. 



Barita Viridis. Tem. Man. II. 



Cracticus Chalyheus, 



100. Genus Pica, Brisson. 

 Fam. CoRviDiE. ' 

 Sp. Pica Vagubunda. — Rufous Magpie. 

 Shot by the Curator, and mounted in the Museum. 

 " Its namesake in Europe is proverbial for its noise and rest- 

 lessness. The present subject possesses a full portion of the above 



