the neck, upper part of the body, wings, and tail, are deep brown:
irides, fore part o f the neck, and all beneath, white : fides of the
neck marked with dulky fpots; befides which is a glofiy crimfon
patch, almoft as big as a tare: legs black.
Defcribed from the drawings o f Sir A. Lever.
O r d e r
f
O r d e r H I * P A S S E R I N E .
G e n u s X X X . S T A R E . .
Common Stare, Gen. Syn. ill. p. 2. N* l.— JrS . Zool. ii. p. 331. A.
Sturnus vulgaris, Sepp Fog. pi. in p. 25.— Faun. Arag. p. 84.
" IN H A B I T S Europe, as high as Salten, in the diocefe o f Dron-
them, in Norway ; and in great numbers in Nafne Helgeland, in
Feroe, and in Iceland*. In the north o f England is called Cheffler,
and Chef-Starling f .
- COMMON
STARE.
Silk Stare, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 10. N° 8.
T E lN G T H eight inches. Bill purplilh red, the end dulky :
the whole head and fore part of the neck yellowilh white, inclined
to dulky on the crown-: upper part of the body fine pale
afh-colour : wings and tail glofiy black; bafe of the quills white,
forming a fpot on the outer part of the wing: baftard wing white:
tail two inches and a half long, even at the end : the under parts
of the body of the fame.colour as the upper, but paler, and approaching
to white at the vent: legs reddilh, or pale yellow.
The female is brown where the male is black : the crown of the
head is black ; forehead mixed black and white; fides of the head
and behind the eye white : the back as in the male: wings glofiy
SILK STARE.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
M a l e .
S uPPL. T brown,