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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Iris dark brown; eyelids and naked skin of the head slaty brown ; the 
gape^ the basal half of the lower mandible and the base of the upper 
mandible black ; the remainder of the bill red ; mouth dark blue ; legs 
and claws dusky orange-yellow. 
Length 9 inches^ tail 3*1, wing 4*6; tarsus ]*3; bill from gape 1*2. The 
female is of about the same size. 
Jerdon^s Mynah is very abundant in Northern Pegu^ especially round 
about Thayetmyo. To the south it becomes rare^ and at Rangoon is seldom 
seen ; but I have met with it on a few occasions on the road leading from 
Rangoon to Pegu in very small numbers. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured 
it at Tonghoo and in Karennee. Mr. Davison did not, however, meet with 
it in any part of Tenasserim. 
It is found in the Irrawaddy valley as far north as Mandelay, and it is 
not known to occur elsewhere outside the limits of British Burmah. 
This Mynah is generally found in large flocks feeding on the ground in 
gardens and roadsides as well as in fields. When the cotton-trees are in 
flower they appear to feed a good deal on the saccharine matter contained 
in the blossoms, and I have seen these trees at such times covered with 
Mynahs. When at Thayetmyo I failed to look for the nests ; but they will 
probably be found in holes of trees in April and May. This is a resident 
species. 
361. STURNIA LEUCOCEPHALA. 
HUME^S MYNAH. 
Acridotheres leucoceplialus, Gigl. 8f Salv. Atti R. Acc. Sc. di Tor. v. p. 278 ; id. 
Ibis, 1870, p. 185. Sturnia incognita, Hume, S. F. viii. p. 396, ix. p. 295. 
Description. — Having never seen this species, I transcribe Mr. Hume^s 
description : — " The lores dusky ; the forehead, crown and occiput, including 
the filamentous crest and the sides of the occiput, a sort of dull earthy brown, 
in some specimens becoming dusky towards the occiput ; chin, throat and 
sides of the head below the bare patch dirty white, and in specimens which 
are dusky on the crest with more or less of a blackish dusky patch at the 
base of the throat, extending in one specimen well on to the breast. I 
cannot be certain whether this is the natural colour of the feathers, or 
whether this black colour is due to some stain. 
" A broad nuchal collar of a dirty pale pinkish buff or yellowish vinous ; 
breast, upper abdomen, sides and flanks vinous, much the same colour as 
in S, burmanica but dingier ; middle of lower abdomen, vent, tibial 
plumes, lower tail-coverts sullied white, with, in some specimens, a faint 
vinous or buffy tinge ; axillaries, wing-lining and the extreme basal portions 
