THE SIAMESE MYNAH. 
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Iris bright yellow; basal half of bill bluish black, terminal half 
orange-yellow ; mouth bluish ; legs orange-yellow ; claws greenish horn- 
colour. 
Length 9*5 inches, tail 3, wing 4*7, tarsus 1*45, bill from gape 1*25. The 
female is very slightly smaller than the male. 
The Jungle-Mynah is found abundantly in all parts of British Burmah 
as far south as Mergui. It will probably be found quite down to the 
extreme south of Tenasserim, for it inhabits the Malay peninsula. 
It extends through the Indo-Burmese countries, and is found over a 
considerable portion of India. In the south of that peninsula it is replaced 
by a closely allied species, A. mahrattensis, in which the irides are pale 
blue instead of yellow. Mr. Blyth states that it occurs in the island of 
Hainan, but Mr. Swinhoe does not include it in his Catalogue of the Birds 
of China. 
The Jungle-Mynah frequents the forests chiefly, and is less commonly 
met with in the neighbourhood of towns than the preceding species. It is 
nevertheless sufficiently abundant near villages, often feeding in the fields in 
company with cattle, and being met with also in compounds and on roads. 
The nesting-season lasts from March to J uly. The nest is always placed 
in holes of trees in thick forests, at all heights from the ground, and is 
made of grass. The eggs are blue, and four or five in number. 
356. ACRIDOTHEEES SIAMENSIS. 
THE SIAMESE MYNAH. 
Acridotheres siamensis, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 303 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. 
p. 90 ; id. Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 203 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 460 ; 
Hume Sj- Dav. S. F. vi. p. 388 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 594 ; Hume, 8. F. 
viii. p. 106, ix. p. 285. 
Description. — Male and female. Upper plumage black; lower plumage 
blackish brown ; under tail-coverts pure white, the bases blackish ; tail 
black broadly tipped with white ; wings black glossed with bronze ; the 
primaries with a large patch of white near their bases. The feathers of the 
head are very narrow and pointed, and the frontal plumes are about three- 
quarters of an inch long. 
Iris pale chocolate; bill orange-yellow ; legs dusky yellow. {Wardlaw 
Ramsay.) 
Length 10 inches, tail 3'5, wing 5*2, tarsus 1"5, bill from gape 1*3. 
The Siamese Mynah was procured by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay in Karen- 
nee at an eK^vation of 3000 feet, and Mr. Hume has examined a specimen 
