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of the feathers of the back with buff shaft-streaks ; primaries and primary- 
coverts black, the former tipped with grey ; tail brown, broadly tipped 
with white ; the central pair of feathers wholly greyish brown with black 
shafts. 
Bill blue at the base, then greenish, yellow at the tip ; irides greenish 
white ; legs bright yellow. {Jerdon.) 
Length 8*5 inches, tail 3, wing 4*3, tarsus 1-15, bill from gape 1*05. 
The Black -headed Mynah is said by Mr. Blyth to inhabit Arrakan. 
It does not appear to have been met with in any other part of the 
Province. 
It has a considerable range, being found over the whole of the peninsula 
of India and Ceylon, and it most probably occurs in the Indo-Burmese 
countries. 
This species feeds on the ground among cattle and also on trees, partaking 
of berries and flower-buds. 
In India it breeds from May to August, constructing a nest o£ grass 
and feathers in the holes of trees, and laying four or five blue eggs. 
358. STUENIA STURNINA. 
THE DAUEIAN MYNAH. 
Gracula sturnina, Pall. Reis. Huss. Reichs, iii. p. 695 ; Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 399 ; 
Wald. Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 204. Sturnus dauuricus, Pall. Act. Holm. 1778, 
p. 197, t. vii. ; Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 806 ; Pall. Zoogr. Ross.-Asiat. i. p, 422. Pastor 
malayensis, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 103. Temenuchus dauricus, Humcj 
8. F. ii. p. 249 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 362. Sturnia daurica, Salvad. 
TJcc. Born. p. 270. Calornis daurica, Bl. ^ Wald. B. Burnt, p. 91. Sturnia 
sturnina, Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 393 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 106 Bingham , 
8. F. ix. p. 193. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole head, neck, under wing- 
coverts and axillaries and the whole lower plumage except the vent and 
under tail-coverts grey, paler beneath and darkest on the crown ; chin and 
throat tinged with fawn ; vent and under tail-coverts buff ; back, rump 
and lesser wing-coverts, with a large spot on the crown of the head, metallic 
purple j a band of buff across the rump ; tail metallic green, the outer 
webs of the outer pair of feathers buff ; median wing- coverts black, broadly 
tipped with white tinged with buff; greater coverts black, edged with 
metallic green and tipped with buffy white ; primary- coverts black edged 
with metallic green ; the scapulars wdth most of their outer webs buff, and 
the inner webs black at base and buffy brown at the ends j primaries brown 
edged and tipped with metallic green, and the first few primaries further 
