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CATALOGUE. 
TiLGiEi, Kaschmir, Theobald. 
SiGHEKGiK, Turks., Dickson and Boss. 
ct' b. ? . jun. Bagdad. Presented by Commander 
Jones. 
c. Olipore. d. e. Cabul. Adult and young. From 
Griffith's Collection. 
/ ^. h. i. ^ ? . Nepal. Adult and young. {St. indicus, 
Hodgs.) Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
j. h. China. From Reeves's Collection. 
" Very common at Erzeroum. Frequents the habitations of man, 
and feeds in fields, &c. : these birds are also the constant attendants 
of cattle while grazing ; at sunset they return in large flocks to roost 
upon trees and eaves of houses. They arrive in the beginning of 
March and depart late in November." — (Messrs. Dickson and Eoss.) 
" Arrives at Candahar in the winter months only, and departs in 
the spring." — (Hutton.) 
" Breeds in the valley of Kaschmir generally, in holes of bridges, 
tall trees, &c. Eggs ovate pyriform i'|-f ; pale clear bluish green." 
—(Theobald.) 
" Grenerally appears in great flocks in the neighbourhood of 
Muttra in the cold weather." — (Eev. T. Phillips's MS. Notes.) 
Captain Hutton remarks : " I observed that the 8t. unicolor was 
far more numerous at Candahar than the St. vulgaris, and inclined 
to keep separate from them ; the flocks being sometimes without a 
single spotted bird among them. St. vulgaris remains here only 
during the coldest months, and departs as spring approaches ; 
whereas St. unicolor builds in the spring at Candahar, laying seven 
or eight blue eggs, and the young are fledged about the first week in 
May. In life, the bill is brown, not yellow." 
Genus Sturnopastor, Hodgs., Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844). 
PsAEiTES, Cdbanis, Cat. JB. Mus. Seine, p. 203 (1851). 
801. STUBNOPASTOR CONTBA, Linn. Sp. 
Sturnus contra. Linn. S. N. I. p. 290. Griffith's An. 
Kingd. YI. p. 424. Sundevall, Bhysiogr. Sdllsh. 
TidsJc. (1837), p. . Ann. Nat. Hist. XYIII. 
p. 305. Jerdon, Madr. Journ. XI. p. 20. G. B. 
Gray, Gen. of Birds, II. p. 377. Hodgs., Cat. B. 
of JSfep. p. 104. Blyth, Ann. JVat. Hist. XIII. 
