![]() Leucistic individuals have been recorded. The flight is slow and butterfly-like on round wings. The subspecies vary slightly in plumage, extent of streaking of the feathers and in measurements. The sexes are similar in plumage but young birds have dark brown in place of black. The upper body, throat and breast are black while the cheek, lores, wing coverts and rump are contrastingly white. This myna is strikingly marked in black and white and has a yellowish bill with a reddish bill base. It has been recommended to search for genetically pure members of the species in the wildlife trade for the purpose of captive breeding a potential captive population of pure G. jalla was likely driven to extinction in the wild due to the illegal songbird trade becoming increasingly pervasive in Indonesia, and in captivity it is likely threatened by hybridization with captured individuals of mainland pied myna species. jalla), historically known from Java and Bali in Indonesia. floweri) from Thailand and Cambodia, and the monotypic possibly extinct in the wild Javan pied myna( G. contra sensu stricto) from most of the Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, and Yunnan in China, with subspecies sordida and superciliaris the monotypic Siamese pied myna ( G. contra represents a species complex of 3 distinct species: the Indian pied myna ( G. The populations in Manipur south to Myanmar and east to Yunnan have the white extending over the eye and are included in the subspecies superciliaris first described by Edward Blyth in 1863.Ī 2021 study found that G. This form differs from the Indian form in having reduced streaking on the shoulders and nape. The population in northeastern India (Sadiya to Tirap and the Naga Hills) was named as sordida (originally Sturnus contra sordidus) by Sidney Dillon Ripley in 1950. It is found mainly along the Gangetic plains extending south into Andhra Pradesh and east to Bangladesh. superciliaris ( Blyth, 1863) – Manipur (northeast India), north, central, southeast Myanmar and southwest ChinaĪn early illustration by George Edwards (1751) contra ( Linnaeus, 1758) – east Pakistan, north, central, India, south Nepal and Bangladesh (includes sordida) In the past the Indian pied myna has been included in the genera Sturnus and Sturnopastor but based on results from molecular phylogenetic analysis it is now placed in the resurrected genus Gracupica that had been introduced in 1831 by the French naturalist René Lesson. Linnaeus specified the type locality as India but this was restricted to Calcutta by the British ornithologist E. Albin believed that "contra" was the Bengali word for this species, but this name was not known in the 19th century. ![]() Linnaeus based his description on the "Contra, from Bengall" that had been described and illustrated in 1738 by Eleazar Albin and the "Black and White Indian Starling" that had been described and illustrated in 1751 by George Edwards. The Indian pied myna was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Sturnus contra. It produces a range of calls made up of liquid notes. It is often seen within cities and villages although it is not as bold as the common myna. It is usually found in small groups mainly on the plains and low foothills. The Indian pied myna ( Gracupica contra) is a species of starling found in the Indian subcontinent. ![]()
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