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394 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Genus SAROGLOSSA, Hodgs, 
367. SAEOGLOSSA SPILOPTERA. 
THE CHESTNUT-THROATED MYNAH. 
Lamprotornis spilopterus, Vig. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35. Saroglossa spiloptera, 
Jerd. B, Ind. ii. p. 336 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 434 ; Wold, in Bl. B. B%irm. 
p, 91 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 334 j Hume 8j- Dav. S. F. vi. p. 394 ; Hume, S. F. 
viii. p. 106. 
Description. — Male and female. Upper plumage from the forehead to the 
upper back grey, each feather edged with black ; back and scapulars grey, 
each feather edged with brown ; rump plain brown ; upper tail-coverts 
rufous-brown ; tail brown tinged with rufous ; lores, cheeks and ear- 
coverts black ; chin and throat chestnut ; centre of breast, centre of 
abdomen and the under tail-coverts white, tinged in places with rufous ; 
flanks and remainder of lower plumage deep rufous ; primaries, secondaries 
and primary-coverts black edged with metallic blue, and all the primaries 
with a white patch at their bases ; wing-coverts dark brown edged with 
grey ; tertiaries light brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white. 
Irides dull white ; bill dusky black, reddish black at base of lower 
mandible ; upper and lower mandibles margined with pale yellow ; legs, 
feet and claws black. {Armstrong.) 
Length 7*5 inches, tail 2*5, wing 4*2, tarsus '85, bill from gape I. 
The Chestnut-throated Mynah has been observed in the Pegu Division ; 
on the Karin hills, east of Tonghoo, by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay, who states 
that it was tolerably abundant on the thickly-wooded slopes ; and by 
Dr. Armstrong at Elephant Point, at the mouth of the Rangoon river. 
According to Dr. Jerdon, this bird occurs in the Western and Central 
Himalayas and it inhabits the valleys about Simla and Mussoorie up to 
6000 feet. It appears to be partially migratory; but hardly any thing 
appears to be known about its distribution and movements. 
It seems to be a tree-Mynah, and not to descend to the ground. It breeds 
in the holes of trees, depositing a few leaves for its nest and laying three 
or four eggs, which are green spotted with red and purple. 
