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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
edged mesially with huffish brown ; secondaries hrown^ edged with metallic 
green ; tertiaries almost wholly metallic green ; the secondaries have a 
patch of huffish brown near the base of the outer webs. 
In some birds the grey of the head and neck is produced on to the upper ' 
back and is streaked with brown. The number of primaries which have a 
brown edging varies from four to seven. 
Young birds have those parts which are metallic in the adult plain brown, 
the patch on the crown being indicated at an early age. The marks on 
the wings and the buff band across the rump are always as in the adult. 
Birds of every intermediate form of colouring are to be found. 
Legs and feet dull earthy green ; the bill varies from black to brown, 
and is greenish blue or whitish at the base of the lower mandible. [Davi- 
son.) Irides dark brown, claws horn-colour. [Bingham.) 
Length 7*5 inches, tail 2, wing 4, tarsus 1*1, bill from gape I. The 
female is of the same size. 
The Daurian Mynah is a winter visitor to the Province. Mr. Davison 
procured it in Tenasserim from Moulmein down to Mergui, and Capt. 
Bingham on the banks of the Houngdraw river. Mr. Davison found it 
especially abundant near Tavoy in April. I have seen only one specimen 
from the Pegu Division ; it was shot at Zeinganein, about ten miles 
north of Pegu. 
In winter it is found in the Malay peninsula, Cochin China and in the 
island ol Java, and probably in Sumatra and Borneo. Mr. Swinhoe states 
that it occurs in China at Tientsin and Pekin, but he does not give the 
date of its occurrence at those places. 
In summer, according to Pere David, it is met with in Tartary and 
Mongolia, and he found it breeding at Ourato in the latter country. 
Of this bird Mr. Davison says : — It goes about in small flocks, and 
entirely resembles S. nemoricola in its voice and habits, but is much 
more shy.^^ 
359. STURNIA SINENSIS. 
THE CHINESE MYNAH. 
Oriolus sinensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 394. Pastor elegans, Less. Voy. Belmiger, 
p. 266, pi. 6. Sturnia sinensis, Bl. 8f Wald. B. Burm. p. 91 ; David et Oust. 
Ois. Chine, p. 363; Hume, S. F. vii. p. 514, viii. p, 106, ix. p. 118 ; Oates, S. F. 
X. p. 229. 
Descripfio7t,. — Male and female. The forehead, crown, lores, round the 
eye, the chin, rump and upper tail- coverts rosy ferruginous ; the nape and 
the whole back deep grey ; sides of neck, throat, breast and abdomen grey. 
