1. STUENUS. oo 



Subsp, a. Sturnus menzbieri. (Plato I ) 



P. 500- Tnr- Ti„]i ^'1 ^ -/ , i. ' P*-^' ^>'ooks, Ibis, l;>70, 

 p. ow, ±ac^. Jiull. hoc. Zoo . France i n ^7qns7«^. By; 

 iS^^/-. -F 1877 T> ^-^n- P..V . • „'"'/•,?• ^'<J (ife/o; Butler, 



^'e.;^«.J. xxix. p. 201 (1.79?: hI^^.F ^mt'J'Z 1^' 



75^., IS80, p. 128; &«4 j; Ji. s. Bet Ivi n 8^^ n«S-^ "'*' 

 Sturnus indicus (,iec Hodgs \ BMh T A %' r ^' - *^^o^'^- 



td. Ibis, 1867, p. 38: '^' ^ ' ^- ^''"^- ^"^- P- 366 (1844); 



Stm-nus humii, &.,,/,/, B. Asia, v. pi. 43 (1877. nee descr ) 

 Sturnus menzbieri, S'harpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 438. ^" 



j4c?»Zi ma7e. Similar to ^^ vulgaris but with a purple crown 

 instead of a green one; lower back and rump green scapS 

 green; wing-coverts bluish green ; flanks reddlh Zple S , 

 sLght gloss of steel-blue; throat reddish nurwle 1^1? fl.7i 1 

 extending to the fore neck; chest <iee^^'^b 11 bWl L ^'^' 

 lower mandible narrowly edged with^^h^; ; le^^^ anfflS'tS 

 hazel; ins deep brown " (£ A Buihr) Tnf.l 1 11 n • , 

 cuImenia5,wrngoao,ta\l215,t:t^^^ ''°^' ' ^"'^■^^^' 



Achdt female. SimUar to the male. Total leno+T, q ;„„i, 

 culmen 1-15, wing .5-05, tail 2-5, tarsus M ^ ^ '^'^''' 



As?^^::tj-if^^^^ 



b c Id sk ^^°^-'*'-^^°^, March 17, 1888. H. Seebohm, Esq fP 1 



xeb. 17. 

 e. d ad sk. Ferghana, Nov. 20, 1878. Dr SevertzofT TO 1 



{■ f ad sk 1"'-"^^ ^^J-- ff^^^'f:|- India Museum.^^-^- 



.. ? ad. sk. Kia^yarsk,^^^C. Siberia, H. Seebohm, Es,. [P.]. 



h. 2 ad. sk. Xandahar,Afghanistan,Dec.8, Col. Swinhoe [P.], 



d ad. sk. Kandahar March 6, 1879 (Sir Hume CoU 



O. >^t. John). 



2 tdlk r '" d"^'' i^:'^'-^^- I°d^- Museum. 



V ad. sk. Gw^Klar, Baluchistan, Dec. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



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