366 Appendix to Mr. Blyttis Report [No. 149. 



having " les plumes capistrales cowtes et serves," : it would seem to 

 connect the present form with Sturnia. Mr. Eyton has described 

 a Mynah from the Malay peninsula as Pastor Malayensis, P. Z. S. 

 1839, p. 103; and the Turdus otocephalus, Gm. (Tem., pi. col. 

 136), said to inhabit Ceylon and Java, is referred to the group of 

 Mynahs by Stephens.* 



The ordinary Indian Starling, Sturnus contra and capensis, Auct., 

 Pastor jalla, Horsfield, and apparently P. auricularis of the Diet. 

 Class., constitutes Mr. Hodgson's division Stumopastor : and the 

 Himalayan Starling, considered to be identical with St. vulgaris by 

 most authors, certainly differs considerably from the European bird in 

 the form of its beak, which is longer and more compressed at tip, 

 being drawn out to a much finer point, besides that this organ never 

 turns yellow as in the European Starling : considerable numbers are 

 sometimes sold alive in Calcutta, brought from the hilly regions of 

 Bengal (as Monghyr, &c), observation of which has led me to con- 

 clude that the distinctions above-mentioned are permanent, and there- 

 fore to follow Mr. Hodgson in styling this oriental analogue of the 

 common European Starling St. indicus, 



Finally, there remain two oriental species of Sturnidce, which, 

 though by no means nearly allied, have both been referred to the 

 genus Lamprotomis. One is Calornis cantor, (Latham) G. R. Gray, 

 v. Turdus chalybeus, and T. strigalus, Horsfield, which the Society has 

 received from Arracan and the Tenasserim provinces, where it would 

 seem to be very common. What are probably once-moulted females, ra- 

 ther than the young of the year, have the under-parts yellowish-white, 

 with green-black central streaks to the feathers; and in one specimen be- 

 fore me are some mingled under tail-coverts, of an uniform glossy green- 

 black as usual. The other species is L. spilopterus, Vigors, figured in 

 Gould's Century, an inhabitant of Nepal and the hill ranges of Assam, 

 upon which Mr. Hodgson founds his genus Saroglossa, referring it to 

 the Meliphagidw, and which he characterises as follows : — 



* In Griffith's edition of the Re'gne Animal, VI, 422, is described P. temporalis, 

 Tem. " Cheeks naked, red; head and streak over eyes pure white; collar black; 

 another near the back white; scapularies and wings black-brown; chest and belly 

 white; wing-coverts white-edged ; tail-ends white. Length eleven inches. Bengal," 

 undoubtedly, however, from some other locality. 



