1846.] or Little Known Species of Birds. 33 



as in Gracula ; though in other respects the form is barely separable. 

 The presumed female differs from the male in having less yellow on the 

 crown and throat : in the male, the whole crown, lores, throat, extending 

 laterally to the naked skin beneath the eyes, are bright yellow ; where- 

 as in the females, the lores, and a considerable space both above and 

 below the nude orbital skin, are black. The rest of the plumage is 

 exactly as in the Gracula, with yellow instead of white barring the 

 primaries. Inhabits the Tenasserim Provinces. This is an exceedingly 

 pretty Mynah, and I doubt not would be much esteemed as a cage 

 favourite. 



The other Mynahs were treated of in XIII, 361 et seq. : and the 

 common arboreal Bengal species there referred, and also by authors gene- 

 rally, to Acridotheres cristatellus , (L.), of China, proves to be distinct, 

 and apparently referable to Pastor griseus, Horsf., of Java, which that 

 naturalist imagined to be the same as the cristatellus. To Lord Arthur 

 Hay, I am indebted for the loan of a Chinese specimen of true Acr. 

 cristatellus, the young of which I described as Acr. fuliginosus in XIII, 

 362. I now supply descriptions of each, which will suffice to shew 

 their differences. 



Acr. cristatellus, (Lin.) ; figured by Edwards, pi. XIX : Acr. fuligi- 

 nosus, nobis (the young). Length about eleven inches : of wing five 

 inches and a half; and tail three and three-eighths ; bill to gape an inch 

 and three-eighths ; and tarsi an inch and a half. Colour throughout 

 greyish-black, with a bronzed gloss on the upper parts ; tail-feathers, 

 except the middle pair, and the lower tail- coverts, tipped with white ; 

 base of the primaries, and greater portion of their coverts, also white, 

 forming a broad band on the under surface of the wing ; erect frontal 

 feathers above three-quarters of an inch high, in the specimen under 

 examination : the bill appears to have been yellow, with the base of 

 the lower mandible carrot-red; and the legs are also yellow. The 

 young is browner, with the white patch at the base of the primaries 

 much more developed : but there is no white at the tip of the tail, or of 

 its under-coverts ; and the frontal crest is barely indicated. 



Acr. griseus, (Horsfield) : Pastor cristalloides, Hodgson. Smaller 

 and paler, with the under-parts of a much lighter ash-colour, paling 

 and in some specimens passing to vinaceous- white on the abdomen, and 

 always to pure white on the lower tail- coverts : the tail-feathers are 



