4. STTJRNOPASTOR. 57 



Key to the Species. 



a. Forehead entirely black. 



a'. Bare area of face very large; no light streaks 



on the sides of the neck Jalla, p. 57. 



b'. Bare area of face much smaller ; some very 

 distinct streaks of drab-brown on the sides 

 of the neck contra, p. 57. 



b. Forehead and crown with narrow white streaks ; 



feathers over the eye white, forming a distinct 

 eyebrow ; sides of neck with indistinct pale 

 streaks superciliaris, p. 59. 



1. Sturnopastor jalla. (Plate Y. fig. 3.) 



Pastor jalla, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 155 (1820) ; Waghr, 



Si/st. Av., Pastor, sp. 17 (1827). 

 Pastor oricularius, Drap. Diet. Class, vii. p. 153 (1841). 

 Sturnopastor ialla, Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 336 (1847) ; Bp. Cunsp. i. 



p. 420 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. -22, no. 6313 (1870) ; Nichols. 



Ibis, 1881, p. 153; Vorderm. Xat. Tijdsclir. Nederl. Ind. xliv. 



p. 217 (1884), xlv. p. 393 (1865). 

 Psarites jalla, Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 203 (1850). 

 Sturnopastor contra {nee L.), Ttceedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 319. 



Adult male. Yery similar to S. contra, but without any white 

 streaks on the forehead, and further distinguished by having the 

 region of the eye yellow, extending ui a bare patch backwards above 

 the ear-coverts : "iris pale yellow" (A. M. Wallace). Total length 

 9-5 inches, culmen 1'2, wing 4-85, tail 2"55, tarsus 1*2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but browner. Total length 

 8'5 inches, culmen 1"1, wing 4-8, tail 2'6, tarsus 1"2. 



Hah. Sumatra, Java, Bali, lladura. 



a, &. Ad. ; c. Imni. sk. Lampong, Sumatra {B. C. Tweeddale Coll. 

 Bu.i'ton). 



d. Ad. sk. Java {Horsjield). India Museum [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



e, f. Ad. sk. Java. 



g,h. cS 2 ^d. sk. Java {Leiden Mus.). Salvin-Godman CoU. 



i. (S ad. sk. E. Java. Wallace Coll. 



k. Ad. sk. E. Java {A. R. Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



/, m. (S ad. sk. Bali. NYallace Coll. 



71. S'l o,i^. 2ad.sk. Madura, Nov. 1871 (Z)r. ^4. Tweeddale Coll. 

 B. Meyer). . 



2. Sturnopastor contra. (Plate Y. fig. 1.) 



The Contra from Bengali, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. iii. p. 20, pi. 21 



(1740). 

 The Black and White Indian Starling, Edwards, N. H. Birds, iv. 



y. 187, pi. 187 (1751). 

 L'Etourneau du Cap de Bonne Esp^rance, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 447, 



pi. xli. tig. 3 (1760) ; Daubent. PL Enl. iii. p. 280. 

 Sturnus contra, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 290 (1760) ; Dated. Traite 



