560 PASSERIFORMES CHAP. 
Most of the brighter species exhibit purple, coppery, blue and 
green reflexions, our familiar Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) being 
iridescent black, 
with buff marks 
above, and, after the 
autumn moult, white 
spots below. The 
female is duller, but 
in this Family the 
sexes usually differ 
little. S. wnicolor is 
unspotted. Spodio- 
psar burmanicus has 
grey upper and 
pinkish under parts, 
with brownish 
wings and tail, 
white head, and 
white-tipped — rec- 
trices; Sturnopastor 
contra 18 blackish- 
brown and white 
above, and greyish 
beneath, with 
green-black head 
and throat and 
white cheeks; Pastor 
Tia. 152.—Starling. Sturnus vulgaris. x 
(From Hnglish Illustrated Magazine.) 
[olla 
. 
roseus, Which wanders to Britain, is glossy black, with pink back 
and abdomen; Graculipica melanoptera is almost pure white, 
with black or bronzy remiges and rectrices.  Hulabes religiosa, 
the Myna,—a name also popularly applied to Acridotheres (sacred 
to the god Ram Deo) and several other Indian forms,—is black, 
with purple and green reflexions, and a white patch on the wing- 
quills; Cinnamopterus tenuirostris is more highly coloured, with 
mainly chestnut primaries; Melanopyrrhus orientalis adds to its 
metallic black hue an orange head, neck, rump, and breast ; 
Lamprotornis and the shorter-tailed Lamprocolius exhibit lovely 
greens, purples, and peacock-blues, relieved by golden-bronze ; 
Coccycolius is golden-green with purple cheeks and abdomen. 
Pholidauges leucogaster is rich purplish-violet with white belly, 
