68 STTJRNID.E. 



«, /.-. J ad. sk. Belgaum, Feb. 24, 1880 Hume Coll. 



(A.K Butler). 



I, m. Ad. sk. Deccan (S'l/kes). lodia Museum. 



n. 5 juv. sk. Madras. India Museum. 



0. Ad. sk. Madias. Rev. H. H. Baber 



[P.]. 



p. Juv. sk. Madras (I)>: Jordan). Gculd Coll. 



7. STURNIA. 



Type. 

 Sturnia, Less. CompL ]3i(ff, ix. Ois. p. 53 (1837) S. sinensis. 



Range. Eastern Siberia, Japan, tbrougbout China to the Burmese 

 provinces and Malacca, the Philippines, Borneo, and the Moluccas. 



Key to the Species. 



a. No band of white or grevish white at end of 



tail-feathers. 



a'. Back glossy violet ; wings externally glossy 



green. 



a". Scapulars white or huffy white ; outer 



tail-feathers externally ashy white; no 



red on face or throat ; a pui-ple patch on 



the occiput ; imder surface white, with a 



slight ashy shade on the breast and sides 



of body stiirnina ptil. a?stiv., 



b" . Scapulars like the back ; no light pattern [p. 72. 



on outer feather ; sides of face and sides 

 of neck vinous chestnut ; a similar patch 

 on the occiput ; breast and sides of body 



dark slaty grey violacea, p. 70. 



b'. Back ashy grey or brown ; wings externally 

 brown, with scarcely any gloss ; median 

 wing-coverts tipped with white. 

 c". No ruddy tinge about the face ; a broad 



pale edging to outer tail-feather stttrnina 2 ad. etjuv., 



d". A slight ruddy tinge on the sides of the [p. 72. 



face; outer tail-feathers with only a 

 slight pale margin violacea 5 et juv., 



b. Tail-feathers broadly tipped with white or ashy LP- 71. 



white. 

 c'. Entire wing-coverts and scapulars white . . sinensis ad., p. 69. 

 d'. Wing-coverts black, only the median series 



white sinensis juv., p. 69. 



1. Sturnia sinensis. 



Le Kink de la Chine, Daubent. PI. Enl. iii. pi. 617. 



Le Kink, Mcmth. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 253 (1775). 



Kink Oriole, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. p. 448 (1783). 



Oriolus sinensis, Gm, Si/st. Nat. i. p. 394 (1788). 



Pastor turdiformis, Wayler, Syst. Av., Pastor, sp. 15 (1827). 



Pastor elegans, Less, in Bclangers Voy. p. 266, pi. 6 (1834). 



Sturnia sinensis, Less. Compl. Buff., Ois. ix. p. 52 (1837) ; Blyth %■ 



Wald. B. Burm. p. 91 (1875) ; mime, Str. F. vii. p. 514', viii. 



p. 106 (1879). ix. p. 118 ; Oatcs, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 384 (1883) ; 



LIume, Sir. F. xi. p. 267 (1888). 



