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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
brown; upper plumage_, with wing-coverts^ secondaries and tertiaries, 
brown, tinged with vinous ; primaries dark brown, with the bases white ; 
tail blackish, all but the central pair of feathers broadly tipped with 
white. 
Eyelids, the bill and skin about the eyes yellow ; edges of the eyelids 
black ; mouth bluish black ; iris reddish brown, mottled with white ; legs 
yellow ; claws horn-colour. 
Length 10 inches, tail 3*3, wing 5*2, tarsus 1'55, bill from gape 1*3. The 
female is very slightly smaller than the male. 
The House-Mynah is abundant over the whole of British Burmah except 
in Tenasserim, where Mr. Davison did not meet with it south of Mergui. 
It extends through the Indo-Burmese countries and is found over the 
whole peninsula of India, except in the extreme south and in Ceylon, where 
it is replaced by an allied species, A. melanosternus. 
This Mynali is found in the immediate neighbourhood of villages and 
houses, even entering large towns. It is a familiar bird, entering the 
verandahs of houses in search of food, and frequently perching on a wall- 
plate to utter its loud and rather pleasing notes. 
The breeding-season lasts from March to July or even later. The nest 
is made in roofs of buildings, holes of trees and walls and other similar 
situations ; it consists merely of a bundle of grass and straw made to fit the 
cavity. The eggs, four or five in number, are blue. 
355. ACRIDOTHEEES FUSCUS. 
THE JUNGLE-MYNAH. 
Pastor fuscus {Temm.), Wayler, Syst. Av., Pastor, sp. 6. Acridotheres fuscus, 
Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 327 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 431 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 90 j 
Ar?nstrong, S. F. iv. p. 332 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 160 ; Hume Sr Dav. S. F. vi. 
p. 388 ; Atiders. Yunnan Exped. p, 594 ; Cripps, 8. F. vii. p. 291 ; Hume, S. F, 
viii. p. 106 ; 8oidly, S. F. viii. p. 330. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead, lores, nasal plumes, ear- 
coverts, top of the head and nape black ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts 
and scapulars cinereous brown tinged with ruddy ; winglet glossy black ; 
primary-coverts white ; primaries black tipped with bronze, each feather 
with a large white spot at the base ; secondaries black, broadly edged with 
bronze on the outer webs ; tertiaries and upper wing-coverts wholly 
bronze-colour; tail brownish black, the centre pair of feathers slightly, 
the others broadly tipped with white ; chin, throat and breast dark ashy 
brown, becoming albescent on the centre of the abdomen ; under tail- 
coverts fulvescent white ; under wing-coverts black. 
