CATALOGUE. 
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Maina, Hind., Jerdon. Blyth. 
Dasee Maina, Hind., F. (B.) Hamilton. Tytler. 
Salik, Bengal, F. (B.) Hamilton. 
Bhat Salik, Bengal, Blyth. 
BiJNNEE, or Saloo, Tichell. 
Saloonka, Mahratta, Jerdon. 
GoRWUNTEA, Canara, Jerdon. 
GoNG-cowDEA, Ceylon, Layard. 
Nacanam-patcht, MaL, Layard. 
DzA-EET-MONK, Arracan, Blyth. 
a.h.cS ? • Nepal. {M. tristo'ides, Hodgs.) Pre- 
sented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
d. e. ^ ? . Pushut. Shikapore. From Griffith's Col- 
lection. 
/ Assam. From McClelland's Collection. 
p. c?. Kumaon. Presented by Captain K. Strachey. 
h. Drawings of bird, nest and eggs. From F. (B.) 
Hamilton's Collection. 
i. j. ^ ? . Dukhun. Presented by Colonel Sykes. 
k Young. Bengal. From the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
" This species is exceedingly numerous throughout India, in the 
vicinity of human abodes and cultivation, and remarkable for its 
familiarity. It is one of the street birds of Calcutta, though keeping 
to the more open situations ; it mingles frequently with the crows ; 
and a pair not unfrequently enter my sitting-room, the male treating 
me with his loud screeching song therein. They breed in nooks of 
houses, and, very commonly, in vessels hung out for that purpose by 
the natives."— (Blyth.) 
C. W. Smitb, in his MS. Notes, says, " This is a very prolific bird, 
and has several broods during the year. A pair made their nest in 
the beams of my verandah during the rainy season of 1822, and, to 
my surprise, had two successive broods within a very short period 
of each other. It is a brisk, lively bird, apt to learn words and to 
whistle, and withal becomes very attached to its master ; so much so, 
that instances are known in which it has been allowed to range 
abroad during the day, with a confidence of its return at night.'* — 
(Pearson.) 
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