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BIRDS OF BRITISH BUBMAH. 
the rump and upper tail-coverts ; the shafts of the feathers of the head and 
neck whitish ; winglet, primary -coverts and all the primaries black, the latter 
tipped with grey ; remainder of the wing blackish, all the feathers tipped 
and edged on the outer web with grey, this edging becoming broader as 
the feathers approach the body ; the central pair of tail-feathers grey, the 
others brown at the base and tipped with dark ferruginous, the tippings 
increasing in extent exteriorly ; cheeks and ear-coverts pale rufous grey ; 
chin, throat and upper breast rufous grey, the feathers with white shafts ; 
remainder of the lower plumage deep ferruginous, darkest on the under 
tail-coverts. 
The above description applies to the bird when in new plumage ; after 
the moult the feathers get worn down and the colours fade, the grey of the 
upper parts becoming brownish and the deep rufous of the lower plumage 
fading to pale rufous. 
Bill blue at base, green in the middle and yellow at the tip ; legs brown- 
ish yellow, claws greenish ; iris light blue. 
Length 8 inches, tail 2*7, wing 4*1, tarsus "9, bill from gape I. The 
female is of the same size as the male. 
The Grey-headed Myiiah is spread over Arrakan, the southern portion 
of Pegu and in some parts of Tenasserim. It is very common all about 
Rangoon, and from that town all the way up the road to Kadote above 
Pegu. I also procured it at Shwaygheen. Mr. Davison met with it in 
Tenasserim only at Mergui; but he procured the next species in great 
numbers over the northern portion of the Division ; and I am not sure that 
Mr. Hume may not have confounded specimens of the two species, for it 
was not till after the publication of his Tenasserim Catalogue that I pointed 
out the characters by which these two species might be recognized. My 
own men procured two specimens at Malewoon. 
It extends through the Indo-Burmese countries, and is found over a 
great portion of India. 
The Grey-headed Mynah is found in flocks of considerable size feeding 
both on the ground and on flowering -trees. It is of rather a shy disposition, 
and is not as a rule met with in the immediate vicinity of houses. It is 
a permanent resident. I got the nest in May, a small pad of grass placed 
in the hole of a tree at a great height from the ground ; it contained three 
eggs, which were blue. 
