THE GREY-HEADED MYNAH. 387 
of the primaries nearly pure white, as are the primary greater wing-coverts ; 
primaries black, brownish on their inner webs ; secondaries and their greater 
coverts bronzy brown ; interscapulary region, scapulars, back and lesser 
wing-coverts black, with faint greenish reflections in some lights ; upper 
tail-coverts a pinky white or very pale vinous buff ; tail-feathers black, all 
but the central pair more and more broadly tipped with white as they 
approach the exterior ; the central tail-feathers narrowly tipped white, 
and with a faint metallic reflection. 
The bill appears to have been orange, redder at the base, yellower at 
the tip, no black at base of lower mandible as in S. burmanica ; the legs 
and feet yellow, dusky on the feet ; the cheeks below the eye and a band 
extending for more than half an inch behind the eye bare, black in the dry 
skin, perhaps deep blue in the fresh bird 
Length 9'0 to lO'O inches, wing 4*75 to 5'1^ tail from insertion 3*0 to 
3*4, tarsus 1*28 to 1-4, bill from forehead 1*0 to I'l/' 
Although I have never seen the type of A. leucocephalus nor that of >S^. 
incognita, it is impossible to read the descriptions of the two birds without 
arriving at the conclusion that they belong to the same species. The head 
of the former is described as being white and that of the latter as earthy 
brown ; but no one who is familiar with this section of Mynahs will fail to 
reconcile these statements. Immediately after the moult the head of the 
allied >S^. burmannica, for instance, is nearly pure white ; but after a few 
weeks the colour changes to dull white, grey, and eventually to brown. 
The large bare patch behind the eye, the black back, and the whitish rump 
and upper tail-coverts all point to the identity of the two birds. 
Harness Mynah was originally obtained at Thu Due, near Saigon, in 
Cochin China. Subsequently, according to Mr. Hume, a large number of 
specimens were procured inside our frontier on the hills that divide Tavoy 
from Siam. I can find no other notice of this species. 
362. STUHNIA MALABAEICA. 
THE GREY-HEADED MYNAH. 
Turdus malabaricus, Gin. Syst. Nat. i. p. 816. Temenuchus malabaricus, 
Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 330; Huyne, Nests and Eggs, p. 433; Ball, S. F. ii, p. 419; 
Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 332 ; Anders. Yunnan Exj^ed. p. 596. Sturnia mala- 
barica, Bl. 8f Wald. B. Burm. p. 90; Hume 8f JDav. S. F. vi. p. 389; Oates, 
S. F. vii. p. 48 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 106. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead and the feathers over the eye 
whitish ; the whole upper plumage dark grey, tinged with ferruginous on 
* In the description of A. leucoccjohalus the Mil and legs are said to be yellow, the 
former reddish orange at the base ; iris brown. 
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