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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
wise it much resembles S. burmannica. S. pyrrhogenys from Japan has 
the head white and the back purple ; the sides of the head and neck and 
a collar in front are maroon. 
Genus CALOENIS, G, E. Gray, 
364. CALORNIS CHALYBEA. 
THE GLOSSY BLACK MYNAH. 
Turdus chalybeus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 148 ; Wald. Trans. Zool. Soc. 
Yiii. p. 79. Turdus strigatus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 148. Lanius 
insidiator, Ra-ffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 307. Calornis af&nis, A. Hay, 
Bl. J. A. S. B. XV. pp. 36, 369 ; id. B. Burm. p. 91 ; Wald. Ihis, 1875, p. 461. 
Calornis irwini, Hume, S. F. i. p. 481. Calornis chalybaea, Salvad. Ucc. 
Born. p. 271 ; Bl. ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 91 ; Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 318 ; 
Hume 8s- Dav. S. F. vi. p. 394; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 106. 
Description. — Male and female. The lores and feathers at the base of the 
upper mandible black without gloss : with this exception_, the whole plu- 
mage black with a brilliant green gloss ; wings and tail black with only 
a faint bluish gloss. 
The young have the upper plumage brown overlaid with green ; the 
wings brown^ edged paler ; the lower plumage bufipy white^ streaked with 
greenish brown. 
In all adults the legs_, feet_, and bill are blacky the irides crimson scarlet. 
In younger birds the legs and feet are brownish or bluish blacky the irides 
yellowish white ; at a later stage the irides are pale yellow with a reddish- 
brown tinge; then they become orange-vermilion, and finally scarlet- 
crimson. {Davison.) 
Length 8*5 inches, tail 3'2_, wing 4"1, tarsus '9, bill from gape 1. The 
female is rather smaller. 
The Glossy Mynahs from Burmah, the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java 
and Borneo are in my opinion identical. I have not been able to examine 
good specimens of C. tytleri from the Andaman Islands ; but Mr. Hume 
asserts that birds from these islands diflPer in being larger and in having a 
duller metallic green gloss. If there are no better characters than these 
by which this supposed species may be recognized, I doubt whether it 
can be distinct. 
The Glossy Black Mynah is stated by Mr. Blyth to occur in Arrakan. 
In Pegu I have failed to meet with it ; but in the next Division, Tenasserim, 
it appears to be common from Yea down to Malewoon. From the latter 
place my men brought me such a vast number of skins of this Mynah that 
