THE BURMESE TALKING-MYNAH. 
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it must be extremely abundant there. Capt. Bingham observed this bird 
on the Attaran river, thus increasing its range in Tenasserim to the north 
somewhat. 
It has been met with in Chittagong, Tipperah, Cachar and Dacca. To 
the south it extends down the Malay peninsula to Sumatra, Java and 
Borneo. 
I have not had the opportunity of observing the habits of this species ; 
I therefore quote Mr. Davison^s interesting account of this bird : — About 
Malewoon and Bankasoon it is very abundant, keeping in flocks about the 
edges of the forest and in clearings where a good many trees are left 
standing. They are very noisy birds, and have a sharp metallic single 
note. At Malewoon several cocoa-nut palms growing on the banks of the 
creek in the heart o£ the town formed a nightly roosting-place for an 
immense number of these birds, and just about dusk flocks would keep 
arriving till many hundreds had assembled, and the chattering and screaming 
that went on till all were comfortably settled for the night was something 
awful. At Tavoy and Mergui the ^ Htees' or gilt ornaments on the top of 
the pagodas, were nightly resorted to by numbers, and in these ' Htees * 
the birds also breed. 
Dr. Beccari remarks that in Borneo these birds build their nests in 
dovecots, and he found the eggs in January. The eggs, as described by 
Count Salvadori, are green or light blue with brown dots and marks, which 
are closest together at the thick end of the egg. 
According to Messrs. Mottley and Dillwyn, these birds also breed in 
holes of the banks of rivers, as well as in cavities of large dry trees. 
Genus GRACULA, Linn, 
365. GRACULA INTERMEDIA. 
THE BURMESE TALKING-MYNAH. 
Gracula intermedia, A. Hay, Madr. Journ. xiii. pt. ii. p. 157. Eulabes inter- 
media, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 339 ; Ball, 8. F. i. p. 77 ; Bl ^ Wald. B. Burm. 
p. 89 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 460 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 230. Eulabes 
andamanensis, Tytler ; Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 331 ; Wald. Ibis, 1871, p. 176. 
Eulabes javanensis (Osb.), apud Hume, S. F. ii. p. 254 ; id. Nests and FggSy 
p. 436 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 153 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 335 ; Bingham, S. F. v. 
p. 86 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 396 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 106. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole plumage black; all the 
feathers broadly edged with shining metallic lilac and green ; the head, 
mantle and breast being lilac, the rump and upper tail-coverts green, and 
