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CATALOGUE. 
" One of the commonest birds in the vicinity of the great rivers of 
Upper India which have high banks, not occurring so low down the 
Hoogly as Calcutta, but abounds as soon as the banks of the Hoogly 
become of sufficient height for it to burrow in with tolerable secu- 
rity ; and, on ascending the river, makes its appearance soon after 
the common Indian Bank Swallow (Hirundo sinensis, Gray). Mr. 
Hodgson well named this species P. gregicolus, for it constantly 
associates with the herds of cattle on open pastures ; and populous 
communities of them perforate deep holes in the perpendicular banks 
of rivers, in which they repose and breed. It is also common in the 
Tenasserim provinces . ' ' — (Bly th . ) 
" Nest, a hole in the sand at the end of a gallery run into a steep 
bank ; many nests in company. Eggs seven or eight, ovato-pyriform, 
, of a clear greenish-blue. May 3rd." — (Theobald.) 
808. ACBIDOTHEBES CRISTATELLUS, Linn. Sp. 
Grracula cristatella. Linn., 8. N. I. p. 165. Lath., Hist. 
of Birds, III. p. 164. {PI. Enl 507.) 
Acridotheres cristatellus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XV. 
p. 83 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 108. Bonap., 
C. G. Av. p. 419. Cabanis, Cat. B. Mus. Heine, 
p. 205. 
Hetserornis cristatella, G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, II. 
p. 335. 
Pastor cristatella, p. Wagler, Syst. Av. sp. 14. 
Acridotheres fuliginosus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XIII. 
p. 362 {young). 
Chinese Starling, Edwards, Birds, t. 19. 
Chinese Crested Mynah. 
a. h. c. Adult and young. China. From Reeves's Col- 
lection. 
This species appears to be found only in China. 
809. ACRID0THERE8 JAVANICUS, Cabanis. 
Pastor griseus,* Horsf, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 154 
(1820). 
Acridotheres javanicus, Caianis, Cat. B. Mus. Heine, 
p. 205 (1851). 
* Previously used by Daudiu (vide Acrid, ginginianm). 
