Bird of the starling family

Usage examples of myna.

Then we ate lunch and listened to Myna read a short story about a solar system inhabited by oxycephalic creatores who give birth to their own mothers.

Since there was no workout scheduled for Friday, I thought it would be a good idea to end the week as it had begun, a picnic with Myna and the Chalk sisters.

On a perch in the cage was a coal-black myna with eyes that were simultaneously bright and dark, like little drops of oil glistening in moonlight.

Although the myna was cute and appealing, its basically reptilian view of the world was most likely cold, strange, and utterly alien.

Lying crosswise on the sweat-dampened sheets of his bed, a naked Pitt gazed out the open window at a pair of myna birds who were fighting over a disinterested female perched in a neighboring palm tree.

As if on cue, the myna birds began their noisy antics again, shattering the brief silence.

I got to talking to Myna, and one thing led to another and we got to talking about Mo.

Tony waited impatiently outside his house for the rest of the day, eating all of the ice cream and cake and teasing his myna bird, and finally, at just about sunset, he saw the lions approaching on the horizon and ran over to collect his present.

Caesar was my myna bird, rescued in some unknown, unknowable, miraculous fashion from the holocaust of the exorcism.

He glared at the myna, but the myna simply ruffled its feathers indifferently and looked away.

It was the bird, the myna or whatever it was, the one that belonged to Horris Kew.

Her distress over losing the cherished tape was forgotten when she heard her myna bird squawking and a pungent odor drifted into the living room from the kitchen.

Starling mites might bite you if you let starlings or mynas nest in your ceiling and the straw mite might if you are in contact with stored straw or grains.

Two types of birds predominated, the mynas, who strutted about gesturing awkwardly and making unharmonious, scolding squawks, and the less noticeable doves, moving more slowly, almost politely, some of them seeming to bob up and down as they fanned out their tail feathers and cooed in melodious voices.

When set at liberty it would lie waiting in the grass for mynas and sparrows, springing upon them from the cover like a cat, and when sparrows, as it frequently happened, ventured into its cage to steal the boiled rice, it would feign sleep, retire into a corner, and dart on them with unerring aim.