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PLACE.
8. SILK STARE.
Description.
Place.
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GREEN STARE.
Description.
more in length, of a red or deep orange colour: on the crown
are two pointed combs; the one behind the other, ftanding upright
: the eyes are furrounded by a broad bare yellow fpace :
the plumage in general of a dirty afh-colour, the under parts
paleft: the quills and tail black; the laft even at the end, or at
lead but very little rounded : the legs are long, and of a pale
yellow-brown colour.
Three of thefe birds were fent into Holland from the Cape of
Good Hope in fpirits: one of them wanted the pointed combs on
the crown; the other had only a rudiment, and the wattle like-
wife was fmaller : it was fuppofed that the wattles were originally
red, but the fpirits had taken out much of their colour.
Silk Starling, Brown. Ill. pi. 21.
O I Z E of a Starling. The bill of a deep orange: the whole
^ head yellowifh white: body entirely of a pale grey : the
plumage in general gloffy and fdky : wings black, eroded with a
bar of white : the tail black: legs reddifh yellow.
Inhabits China.
I obferved one of thefe among fome Chinefe paintings. The
bill was red : the head white : upper parts -of the body black;
the under dufky : legs red. This was perhaps the oppofite fex.
Green Stare, OJb. Voy. ii. p. 327.
/"\N the forehead and chin is a tuft of black and white feathers:
above the firft is a fpot of white: beyond the eye another:
the whole upper part of the body green: on the fcapulars are
two white fpots: wings and tail green; the outer webs of the
firft white : the fhafts of the wings and tail white : the under fide
of the neck, breaft, and belly, pale blue: legs cinereous
blue.
Inhabits China.
Brown Stare, OJb. Voy. ii. p. 328.
« H E bill is whitilh red : the eye lodged in a long ftripe
“ of a pale cerulean : the whole body, wings, and tail,
“ light olive-brown ; on the belly faint, and tinged with yellow :
“ the legs are pale red : the tail is long.”
Inhabits China.
BILL black: head'pale yellow: through the eye a line of
black, beginning at the bafe of the bill; and a fecond beneath
the cheeks : breaft light grey, marked with oblong yel-
lowifh white fpots : back and belly grey, marked with white
and dufky femicircular lines : vent plain grey : quill feathers
dull green: tail barred with pea-green and black : legs blueilh
grey.
Inhabits Ceylon. It is faid to whiftle all forts of fongs in a
mocking way. The Javans call it Tjutjecrawany *.
L ’Etourneau de la Nouvelle Efpagne, Hr if. ora. ii. p. 448. N” 3.
Le Tolcana, Buf. oij, iii. p. 193.
Tolocatzanatl, Roii Syn. p. 168. N° 3.
L ES S than a Starling, but like it in fliape. The head is
brown : the reft of the body, wings, and tail, black.
# Mr. Pennant.
C 2
Place.
10.
BROWN
STARE.
Description.
Place.
i i .
CEYLONESE
STARE.
Description.
Place.
12.
BROWNHEADED
STARE.
Description.
Inhabits