m
V ar. B.
PIED STARE.
L’Etourneau blanc & noir, Brif. orn. ii. p. 444. B.
. ■ ■ — — à tête blanche, ••••■ • -------- 444. Q.— Buf. oif. iii, p. 189.
Sturnus capite albo, Aldrov. ii. p. 637.
Black and white Starling, Will. orn. p. 196.
Description. T N-tfiis the head was "black, and all the reft of the body white.
It was found at Aberdaren, a little village in Caernarvonjhire.
Another, mentioned by Aldrovandus, had a white head and neck,
with two black fpots above the eyes: breaft, belly, fides, thighs,
upper wing arid under tail coverts, white with blueilh fpots-:
quills and tail as in the common Starling; but the two outer tail
feathers white: the bill white: and the legs yellow: claws
black.
I.
V ar. G.
GREY STARE.
L’Etourneau gris, Brif. orn. if. p. 446. D.
Sturnus cinereus, Aldr, Av. ii. p; 638—9..
Lev. Mu/.
Description. ' J 'H A T defcribed. by Brijfon from. Aldrovandus had the
upper part of the body of a rufous alh-cplorir, inclined to.
yellow : the breaft marked with fmall points:. bill and legs-
black.
A beautiful fpecimen, very near allied to this,, is in the Leve<-
rian Mufeum, being wholly of a cream-colour, covered all over,
with white fpots.
Stnrnus'
Sturnus Capenfis, Lin. Syß.u p.290. N? 2.
L’Etourneau du Cap de Bonne Efpérance, Erif: orn. ii. p. 446. N° 2. pl.
41. f. 3.— Pl. enl. 280.
L’Etourneau-Pie, Buf. oif. iii. p. 191.
O I Z E of our Starling. Bill fixteen lines long, and yellowilh:
the plumage is only of two colours, black and white . the
head, neck, back, wings, and tail, are of the firft colour : on
each fide of the head, beginning at the baß o f the upper mandible,
is a ftreak of white, which encompaffing the eye fwells
out into a broad patch,, fo as to make almoft the whole fide of
the head of that colour: at the hinder bafe of this it is a little
prolonged downwards on each fide of the neck, in a narrow ftripe
of black and white mixed: the fcapulars are tipped with white ;
and the edge of the wing, for three quarters of an inch, is white
alfo: the breaft, belly, vent, and rump, of the fame colour: the
legs yellow.
Inhabits the Cape, of Good Hope.
Sturnus contra, Lin. Syfl. i. P- 290. N° 4.
Ee Troupiale de Bengali, Brif. orn. ii. p. 94. N° 9.— Sufpl. p. 94.
L’Etourneau du Cap de Bonne Efperance, ou L’Etourneau Pie, Buf. oif. iii,-
p. 191.
Contra from Bengal, All. iii. pl. 21*
Black and white Indian Starling, Ed-io. pi. 1S7.
H P H E head, neck, back, rump, upper tail coverts, and fca-
1 pulars, are black: from the bill fprings a ftripe of white,
palling through the eyes, and tending to the hind head: the
upper part of the neck is alfo furrounded' by a dirty white band .
beneath each eye is a fpot of white: from the lower part oe the
6 aecl:
Z.
CAPE STARE.
Description.
Place.
2.
V ar. A\
CONTRA
STARE.
D e s c r t p t io nU