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STUKNIDiE. 



Ibis, 1885, p. 245; Giglwll, Avif. Ital.^. ] 8 (1886); Tait, Ibis, 

 1887, p. 179; Salvad. Elench. U'cc. ltd. p. 183 (1887). 

 Sturnus vulgaris unicolor, Schley. Rev. Crit. p. Ivii (1814). 



Adult male. Uniform black above and below, glossed with 

 bronzy purple, and slightly also with green, the feathers of the head, 

 throat, and neck elongated and lanceolate; wing-coverts more 

 purple than the back ; quills brown, externally black, glossed with 

 steel-green on the edges, all with paler ashy-brown tips, edged with 

 black round the ends ; taU-feathers ashy brown, externally glossed 

 with purplish or greenish : " bill yellow, bluish at base of lower 

 mandible; legs brownish flesh-colour; iris dark brown." Total 

 Icnglh 8-5 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 5-2, tail 2-35, tarsus 1-25. 



Aihdt female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 8*5 

 inches, culmen 1'15, wing 5, tail 2'4, tarsus 1"15. 



In ivinter plumage all the feathers are tipped with arrow-shaped 

 spots of greyish white ; the wing-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers 

 are edged with sandy brown ; the bill is blackish. 



Young. Exactly like the young of S. vidgaris. 



Hah. The countries of the Mediterranean. 



a-g. Ad. sk. Seville, May. 



h. Ad. sk. Malaga. 



i,k. (S\ l,m. Malaga, Jan., March, May. 



2 ad. sk. 



n. Ad. sk. Madrid. 



o. c? ad. sk. Morocco (Olcese). 



p-r. Ad. sk. Morocco. 



s. Juv. sk. Tangier (P. L. Sclafer). 



t. 2 ad. sk. Cagliari, Sardinia, May 1877. 

 u,v.(^2 ^^- sl^- Sardinia, Jan. 18S9. 



w. Ad. sk. Sardinia. 



X, 2 ad. sk. Corsica, December. 



2. POLIOPSAR. 



Poliopsar, Sharps, Ibis, 1888, p. 476 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 E. B. Sharpe, Esq, 



[P-]- 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shellev Coll. 

 Tweeddale CoU. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Dr.GiglioH[P.]. 

 Major H. Trevelyan 



L-P-] 



Baron Laugier [C.]. 

 E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P-J. 



Type. 

 P. sericeus. 



Head of P. cincraceus, to show feathered nostrils. 



Range. Indian and Indo-Chinese regions, extending throughout 

 China to Japan and Eastern Siberia. 



