3-
LOUISIANE
STARE.
Description.
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Var. A.
-4-CRESCENT
STARE.
Description,
neck to the vent is white: the upper wing coverts are black,
variegated with fix fpots of white : quills and tail black: legs
yellow-brown.
Thefe are clearly varieties of each other. We are told that
this bird is called by the name of Contra, in the places where it
inhabits.
Sturnus Ludovicianus, Lin, Syjl. i, p. 290. f. 3.
L ’Etourneau de la Louiiiaue, Sri/, cm. ii. p. 449. N" 4. pi. 42. f. 1.
L’Etourneau de laLouifianeouLe Stourne, liuf. .if, iii. p. 192.— PI. enl. 256.
g I Z E of a Thrulh : length nine inches and a half. Bill whitifh,
with a brown tip : the upper parts of the plumage are brown
and rufous grey mixed : on the head three ftripes of white; one
down the middle of the crown, and one over each eye: cheeks,
throat, fore part of the neck, breaft, and belly, fine yellow : on
the fore part of the neck is a large fpot of black feathers, each
of which is tipped with grey: fides, thighs, and under tail
coverts, dirty white, marked with fome fpots of brown : beneath
the wings whitilh grey : edge of the wing yellow : quills rufous
.grey, blended with brown on the outer webs: tail the fame;
but the four outer feathers are white within : legs and claws
grey.
Alauda magna, Lin. Syji. p. 289. N° 11.
Le Merle a Collier d’Amerique, Brif. orn. ii. 242. N° 15.
Le Fer-a-cheval, ou Merle a Collier d’Amerique, Bvf oif, iii. p. 371.
Large Lark, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 33.
Crefcent Starling, Arft. Zool.
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf.
g I Z E of a Blackbird: length eleven inches. Bill blackifnt
top of the head and neck brown ; fides of them pale grey :
from the bafe of the bill, and down the crown to the hind head,
i is
is a ftripe of pale grey : between the bill and eye a luteous fpot;
and behind each eye a black ftripe of an inch in length : the
upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, are brown, mixed with
rufous and blackifh, not unlike a Partridge : all the under parts
are yellow : on the breaft is a black crefcent, not unlike a horfe-
fhoe in lhape: thighs and under tail coverts grey | greater
quills brown; the lefier the fame, fpotted with rufous: tail
brown, marked on the outer edge with rufous: legs and claws
brown. r
The young birds have fcarcc any trace of the black crefcent. Place
This fpecies is frequent in North America, and is migratory :
it comes to New York early, and is feen in great flocks together
in the fait meadows, which it chiefly frequents, and is fcarce
elfewhere. Like the Lark, it is feldomfeen except on the ground.
It is known in America by the name of Meadow Lark.
Sturnus militaris, Lin.Uant. 1771. p -527- . £ . ... MAGELLANIC
L ’Etourneau des terres Magellaiiiques, ou le Blanche-Raie. Bnf. vij. . STARE,
p. 196,—Pl. enl. 113*
Lev. Muf.
r j^H IS meafures about eight inches and a half in length, and Description.
1 is about the fize of a Starling. The bill is an inch and a
quarter long, and in fhape not unlike that bird : the upper parts
of the plumage are brown; each feather margined with paler
brown: from the bill to the eye a crimfon line: at the bafe of
the under mandible a white fpot: behind the eye a ftreak of
white : on each fide the neck a bed of black, dividing the brown
on the hind part' from the fore part of the neck; which, with the
chin, breaft, and upper part of the belly, is of a fine deep
crimfon : the flroulder ’of the wing is of the fame colour, as is a little