THE WHITE-WINGED MYNAH. 
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363. STURNIA NEMORICOLA. 
THE WHITE-WINGED MYNAH. 
Sturnia nemoricola, Jerd. Ibis, 1862, p. 22 ; Bl. ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 91 ; Hume 8f 
Dav. S. F. vi. p. 390 ; Oates, 8. F. vii. p. 48 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 106. Teme- 
nuchus leucopterus, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 48 (note). Temenuchus nemori- 
colus, Hume, S. F. iii. p. 151 ; Armstrong 8f Hume, 8. F. iv. p. 333. 
Description, — Male and female. Very similar to ^. malabarica in general 
appearance. After the moult, when the plumage is fresh, the forehead 
and the crown as far back as the eyes, the chin, throat and breast are a 
clear pearly grey ; the remainder of the lower plumage a beautiful rosy 
buif. In adults the winglet, primary -coverts and the first or bastard primary 
are white. 
When the plumage gets worn, the feathers of the head and neck become 
reduced in many cases to mere shafts, and the beautiful rosy tinge of the 
lower parts gives place to a dull dirty buff. Notwithstanding the simi- 
larity which then exists between >S^. nemoricola and S. malabarica, the 
former may always be recognized by the presence of white on the wing. 
Birds which are not adult fail to have the whole of the winglet and 
primary-coverts white ; but, from the very first, one or more white feathers 
will be present on these parts, and this, coupled with the white bastard 
primary, suffices to indicate the species. 
Occasionally a specimen of S. malabarica has a white bastard primary ; 
but this is very rarely the case. In no instance, however, have I ever seen 
S. malabarica with a white first primary and also with a white feather on 
the winglet or coverts. There may be such instances known; but in these 
cases the birds can only be confounded with the young of S. nemoricola, 
never with the adults. 
The dimensions and colours of the soft parts are the same as in 
malabarica. 
The White-winged Mynah is abundant in Southern Pegu, extending 
sparingly to Thayetmyo in the Irrawaddy valley and to Tonghoo in the 
Sittang valley. Mr. Davison met with it in Tenasserim as far south as 
Amherst ; and Capt. Bingham observed it in the Thoungyeen valley. 
Dr. Tiraud states that this Mynah is very common in Cochin China ; and 
he adds a remark about the plumage which clearly shows that he did not 
confound this bird with >S^. malabarica. 
The habits of this species are precisely similar to those of the preceding. 
In fact they are frequently found together. I discovered the nests in May 
and June. They were placed in holes of trees ; and the eggs were blue. 
S. sericea from China has the wings black with beautiful metallic 
violet edges to the feathers, and the tail is not tipped with white ; other- 
