362 Appendix to Mr. Blyth's Report [No. 149. 



3. Acr. cristatellus ; Gracula cristatella, Lin. ; Pastor griseus, Hors- 

 field; P. cristalloides, Hodgson, J. A. S., V, note to p. 773. (Sub- 

 crested Mynah.) Common in Bengal, Nepal, and eastward to the 

 Chusan Archipelago, also in the Burmese and Malay countries ; but 

 replaced in Southern India by the next species. Always nidificates in 

 the hollows of trees. 



4. Acr. fuscus ; Pastor fuscus, Temminck, apud Griffith's work ; P. 

 Mahrattensis, Sykes. (Dusky Mynah.) Closely allied to the last, 

 but smaller, with the upper-parts inclining to brown instead of ashy, 

 and the irides greyish- white instead of bright yellow. Southern India. 



Acr. fuliginosus, Nobis. In a collection of bird-skins procured in 

 the vicinity of Macao, are two specimens of a Mynah allied to Acr. 

 cristatellus, but obviously distinct in species, though being in a transi- 

 tional state of feather from the immature to the adult garb, the latter 

 cannot be fully described at present. Length about ten inches, of 

 wing five and a quarter, and tail three inches; bill to gape an 

 inch and a quarter, and tarse an inch and a half. The new feathers 

 of the upper-parts were coming dusky-cinereous, of the breast and 

 flanks a purer dark cinereous, resembling in hue the fore, neck and 

 breast of Acr. cristatellus : the belly and vent are uniformly coloured 

 with the rest of the under-parts, and the lower tail-coverts are 

 blackish, whereas in both the preceding species these are nearly or 

 quite white at all ages: the nestling plumage of the head is blackish, 

 and the form of the feathers indicates that these would be slender and 

 elongated in the adult, which has probably a slight frontal crest less 

 developed than in Acr. cristatellus; the new feathers of the wings are 

 bronzed black, except the base of the primaries and the coverts im- 

 pending them, which are white : tail wholly blackish : the beak is less 

 compressed than in Acr. cristatellus, and the tip of the upper mandible 

 is more distinctly incurved and emarginated ; the colour of both 

 mandibles would seem to have been orange at base, and white for the 

 terminal half: the legs apparently have been yellow. There is no naked 

 skin upon the face; and its superior size, with the total absence of 

 white upon the tail and its under-co verts, distinguishes this species 

 readily from Acr. cristatellus of any age. 



The next are smaller and lighter-formed, more allied to Sturnus, 

 but having a shorter and more compressed bill. Their habits are much 



