512 



GENKRA AXB SPECIES OF BIRDS, 



Family XXX LX. STURNID^. 



(Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 22, 1890 ; 

 Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. pp. 516-544, 

 1889 ; Hartert, Vog. paliiarkt. Fauna, i. 

 pp. 41-51, 1903.) 



I. STURNUS, Lhm. 



(8harpe, t. c. p. 20 ; Gates, t. c. p. 519 ; Hartert, 

 t. c. p. 41 ; Buturlin, Grn. Jahrb. xv. pp. 205- 

 213 (1904); id., Psov. i ruzejn Gohota, 

 Moskva, 1906, i. pp. 35-4:3.) 



1. vulgaris, Linn. (p. 27.) 



[sophite, Rianchi, Ann. Mus. St. Petersb. i. 

 p. 129 (1890); cf. Hartert, t. c. p. 41.] 



N. Europe. 



C. & W. Europe. 



Kussia 



((>4°-60° N. Lat.). 

 S. in winter 



to N. Africa, 



Marocco to 



Egypt, Syria, 



and Persia. 

 Madeira and 

 Canary Islands. 



2. zaidamensis, Buturlin, Orn. Jalirb. xv. p. 208 CentriU Asia. 

 (1904). 



3. dzungaricus, BufurHn, Orn. Jahrb. sv. p. 208 Songaria. 

 (1904). 



4. tauricus, Buturlin, Orn. Jahrb. xv. p. 209 Crimea. 



(1904). 



r>. harterti, Buturlin, t.c. p. 210. 



Turkestan. 



