A correspondent informs me that the Brahminy myna (Temenuchus pagodarum) is now a regular visitor at Abbottabad and Taran Taran in the Punjab, whereas Jerdon states that the bird is not found to the west of the United Provinces.
Its talons struck the mynain the neck, and it soon killed it, not, however, before the poor little creature had emitted some heart-rending shrieks.
The common myna (Acridotheres tristis) is another bird which habitually patronises the Farash Hotel.
If the nursery of the pied myna were a neatly constructed cup, something might be said for this idea, but no amount of foliage could hide from view the huge mass of straw and rubbish that does duty for the nest of this species.
Later, the sparrow-hawk was sent after an unfortunate myna (Acridotheres tristis), which it secured after a chase of perhaps a dozen yards.
They feed largely on the ground, over which they strut with myna-like gait--no myna would dream of losing its dignity to the extent of hopping.
The other day I saw a bank myna (Acridotheres fuscus) hop on to a king crow's back and administer unto him chastisement in the shape of a couple of vigorous pecks on the back of the head.
India would be a duller country than it is without these familiar sounds, but I maintain that his most ardent admirer can scarcely believe the common myna to be a fine songster.
The common myna (Acridotheres tristis) affords a familiar instance of this class of birds.
So untidy is the myna that you can sometimes discover the room it occupies by the pieces of furniture that stick out of the window!
Most species of myna breed early in the hot weather, but the pied mynas invariably wait until the first rain has fallen before they set about the work of nest-building.
He dashed about the cage like a thing demented, and so alarmed the myna that I had to let him out.
But after the rain has been falling for ten minutes the myna looks as disreputable as a babbler.
A myna is a self-assertive bird, a bird that will stand no nonsense.
To the ordinary observer the cock myna is as like the hen as one pea is like any other pea.
Owing to the self-assertion of the myna he is apt to be quarrelsome.
A bird which can produce a large number of sounds is almost invariably a good mimic, and the common myna is no exception to this rule.
The cradle of the common myna is devoid of architectural merit.
According to Hume the normal breeding season of the common myna (Acridotheres tristis) lasts from June to August, during which period two broods are reared.
The pied myna forms the one exception; he does not come into his full voice until the rains have set in.
As has already been stated, the nest of the bank-myna (A.
The nests of the kingfisher and the sand-martin have already been described, that of the bank-myna belongs to May rather than to April.
The black-headed or brahminy myna (Temenuchus pagodarum) usually begins nesting operations about a month later than the bank-myna; its eggs are most often taken in June.
Although the myna has been reported in the states of Washington and Oregon, most of the population is in Greater Vancouver and Vancouver Island.
By the time it is really dark every bird, be he myna or pond heron, is sufficiently satisfied to hold his tongue.
So familiar is the myna that all books on Indian birds deal very fully with him.
The uproar brought me to the window; from there I saw that the robin was hissing with rage at a myna who was peeping into the robin's nest.
The first turumti to observe this swoops down at the myna to find itself hopelessly entangled in the net.
Even as the house crow (Corvus splendens) overshadows the corby, so does the common myna (Acridotheres tristis) almost eclipse the bank myna.
In this he shows that eight stomachs of the bank myna contained 106 insects.
Thus these myna freaks were compelled to live apart, but, being strong and healthy, they throve and either paired inter se, or managed to secure mates among their normally dressed fellows.
Then the cock robin flew at the myna and pecked at him.
But the angry cries of the bird persisted, and I heard them repeatedly on the following day, so I braved the heat and went into the verandah to prospect and discovered that a myna was the object of the robin's wrath.
Grasshoppers are to the common myna what bread and meat are to the Englishman, the pieces de resistance of the menu.
When Sa'-zada had stopped the indelicate scolding of the two Birds Myna proceeded to tell of his life.
Then the Men used language much like the disgraceful talk we have had from Cocky and Myna to-night.
The other species of Myna frequently, but by no means invariably, congregate in flocks.
The only other myna commonly seen in Himalayan hill stations is the jungle myna (Æthiopsar fuscus).
No other species of myna is common on the Nilgiris.
Of the common myna (Acridotheres tristis), he writes: "This is common around villages at 4000 feet.
Careful inspection, however, shows that the jungle myna has a little patch of feathers in front of the head over the beak.
The common myna (Acridotheres tristis) is nearly as abundant in the hills as it is in the plains.
Yet this is precisely the myna one would expect to find on the Palnis, and it should be looked for.
The myna is a bird considerably smaller than a crow.
Close inspection shows that this species has a little tuft of feathers on the forehead, which the common myna lacks.
The Bank Myna breeds throughout the North-West Provinces and Oudh, Behar, and Central Bengal, the greater portion of the Central Provinces, and the Punjab and Sindh.
Taylor informs us that at Manzeerabad, in Mysore, this Myna is common everywhere, and breeds in April and May.
Barnes informs us that this Myna breeds in Rajputana during June and July.
Mr. Oates remarks:--"This Myna lays in Pegu in holes of trees at all heights above 20 feet.
Barnes informs us that in Rajputana this Myna breeds about May.
Davidson and Wenden remark of this Myna in the Deccan:--"Common, and breeds in May and June.
Barnes tells us that this Myna breeds in Rajputana in June, and that he found one nest in that month in a hole of a tree with three eggs.
The Jungle Myna eschews the open cultivated plains of Upper, Central, and Western India.
The Pagoda or Black-headed Myna breeds throughout the more open, dry, and well-wooded or cultivated portions of India.
Cripps tells us that at Furreedpore, in Bengal, this Myna is "very common, and a permanent resident.
The harbour of Tripoli is formed by a line of low rocks, stretching from the point of the Myna about two miles into the sea, towards the north; they are called by the natives Feitoun [Arabic].
The inhabitants of the Myna are chiefly Greek sailors or ship-wrights; I found here half a dozen small country ships building or repairing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "myna" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
