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they are seldom found to associate with each other ; they are, however, 

 not quarrelsome birds ; all of them have a melodious liquid note, which 

 they may be often heard to utter, while on the wing or seated high on 

 a perch. Orioles are seldom seen on the ground. 



(42) THE MAEOON OEIOLE. 

 (ORIOLUS TKAILLII— (Vig.) ) 



The prevailing colour of the plumage maroon-red ; all about the 

 head black. 



In young specimens the head and the upper part brown; bill 

 bluish grey; irides pale buffy-yellow ; the total length of the bird is 

 about I If inches. 



Sab. —Found in the Himalayas from the Valley of the Sutlej to 

 Assam, the Khasia Hills, Manipur, Tenasserim, Pegu and Arracan. 



Length of life in captivity. 

 A specimen lived for about eighteen months in the garden. 



Treatment in health. 



With regard to homing and feeding it may be treated like other 

 orioles ; the specimen that lived in the garden appeared to be more 

 carnivorous in its appetite than other species of orioles. 



Nothing particular is known about its habits. 



(43) THE SOUTHERN GEACKLE, OE THE SOUTHERN 

 HILL MYNA. 



(EULABES RELIGIOSA— (Linn.) ) 

 Hab. — Forest-clad hills of Southern India. 



(44) THE INDIAN GEACKLE, OE THE NEPAL 

 HILL MYNA. 



(EULABES INTERMEDIA— {A. Hay.) ) 



The total length of this bird is from 10 J to 11 inches, that is, about 

 J to 1 inch larger than the preceding species ; the arrangement of the 

 wattles, which are smaller, is also different from that of the other. 



Hab. — Distributed along the lower ranges of the Himalayas from 

 Kumaon to Assam, extending to Burmah and Tenasserim, also found in 

 the Andamans and Nicobars ; the specimens which are now and then 

 brought to Calcutta from Midnapore are probably from Western Bengal 

 and the Central Provinces. 



Albinoid form of hill-myna is not uncommon. The single speci- 

 men of white myna that lived in the garden some time ago came from 

 the Andamans. 



