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their larvae, also small shells (Bulimi), which I have found entire in 
its stomach. Its usual cry is neither so loud nor so harsh as that of 
most of the Mynahs, and it has a very pleasing song. I have no 
doubt, like the others of its genus, it nidificates in holes of trees, 
and lays three or four greenish-blue eggs, but I have not had an 
opportunity of observing this. It climbs about the trunk and 
branches of trees with great facility, and never, that I observed, 
descends to the ground." — (Jerdon.) 
Genus Acridotheres, Vieill.y Analyse (1816). 
Maina, p. Hodgs., J. A. S. Beng. V. p. 111. 
806. ACRIDOTHERES TRISTIS, Linn. Sp. 
Paradisea tristis. Linn., S. J^. I. p. 167. (PI. Enl 219.) 
Acridotheres tristis, Vieill., Analyse, p. (1816). 
G. E. Gray, List Gen. of Birds (1840), p. 54 ; 
Gen. of Birds, II. p. 335. Blyth, J, A. S. Beng. 
XIII. p. 361 ; XV. p. 314 ; Ann. JVat Hist. XX. 
p. 384. Tickell, J. A. S. Beng. XVII. p. 304. 
Hutton, J. A. S. Beng. XYII. pt. 2, p. 8. Bonap., 
C. G. Av. p. 419. Cahanis, Cat. B. Mus. Heine, 
p. 205. Tlieolald, J. A. S. Beng. XXIII. pp. 597, 
602. Layard, Ann. Nat. Hist. XIII. n. s. p. 218. 
Tytler, Ann. Nat. Hist. XIII. n. s. p. 368. Bhil- 
lips, MS. p. 16. 
Pastor tristis, Wagler, Syst. Av. sp. 5. SyJces, P. Z. S. 
(1832), p. 95. McClell., B. Z. S. (1839), p. 163. 
Jerdon, Madr. Journ. XI. p. 20. Bearson, J. A. S, 
Beng. X. p. 648. Hodgs., Gray's Zool. Misc. 
(1844),^. 84; Cat. B. of kep. p. 104i. Blyth, Ann. 
Nat. Hist. XII. p. 96. Burgess, B. Z. S. (1854), 
p. 144, 
Gracula tristis, Lath., Hist, of Birds, III. p. 147. Sun- 
devall, Bhysiogr. Wish. Tidsh. (1837), Ann. Nat. 
Hist. XYIII. p. 303. 
Gracula gryllivora, Daudin, Orn. II. p. 285. 
Maina tristoides, Hodgs., J. A. S. Beng. V. p. 771 
(1836). 
Turdus Salica, F. (B.) Hamilton, MS. I. p. 12. 
Paradise Grackle, Latham. 
The Common Hill Mynah. 
