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BIRDS OF BMTISH BURMAH. 
which was said to have been shot on the Tenasserim river. There is no 
other record of its occurrence in the Province. 
It is found in Siam^ and is very abundant_, according to Dr. Tiraud^ in 
Cochin China. Dr. Anderson met with it at Bhamo in Native Burmah 
and to the east towards the Chinese frontier. 
I can find nothing noted about the habits of this bird. 
A. cristatellus, from China,, is a somewhat similar species ; it differs in 
having the under tail-coverts black, merely tipped with white, and in 
having less white at the extremity of the tail. The character of the frontal 
plumes in the two species is also different. A. albocinctus, from Munipoor, 
is another Mynah of this genus, remarkable for its conspicuous white 
collar. A. ginginianus is said by Mr. Blyth to have occurred in Tenas- 
serim ; it is unlikely to occur in Burmah, and he must have been mistaken 
about it. In case, however, that it should be found in Burmah, I append 
Dr. Jerdon^s description ^. 
Genus STURNIA, Less. 
357. STURNIA PAGODARUM. 
THE BLACK-HEADED MYNAH. 
Turdus pagodamm, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p, 816. Temenuchus pagodarum, Jerd. 
B. Ind. ii. p. 329 ; Hume, Nests and Eygs, p. 432 ; Ball, S. F. ii, p. 419. Sturnia 
pagodarum, Bl. B. Burm. p. 90 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 677 ; Hume, S. F. viii. 
p. 106. 
Description. — Male and female. Head from forehead to nape with crest 
black ; sides of the head, sides and back of the neck and the whole lower 
plumage as far as the vent rich buff, the feathers of the back of the neck, 
throat and breast much elongated and with the shafts pale ; vent, thighs 
and under tail-coverts white ; whole upper plumage (except the parts 
already described), the wing-coverts, tertiaries and secondaries grey, a few 
* ACRIDOTHERES GINGINIANUS. 
" Head witli rather short occipital crest, lores, ear-coverts and nape glossy black ; the 
rest of the plumage dull cinereous or inky black, paling beneath ; wings black, with the 
wing-spot ferruginous ; tail black, tipped dull ferruginous ; middle of abdomen, of vent 
and the under tail-coverts pale ferruginous. The frontal feathers are slightly erectile, and 
those on the sides of the head are directed towards the median line. 
" Bill red, yellow at the tip ; nude eye-spot reddish ; feet dull yellow. Length 
8i inches, wing 5, tail 3^, tarsus If, bill at front nearly 
