RED-WINGED STARLING. 



PASSERES. 



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 ICTERIDAL 



Agel.eus phgeniceus (Linnpeus *). 



THE RED-WINGED STARLING. 



Af/elaius phocrdceus. 



AoEiiEUS, Vieillot-f. — Bill as long as the head, hard, stout, straight and 

 cuneated ; the mandibles nearly equal, their edges inflected. Nostrils basal, oval, 

 overhung by a rudimentary operculum. Gape angular. Wings moderate, with 

 only nine primai'ies, that which is ordinarily the first being absent, and of those 

 present the outermost is shorter than the next two. Tail i-ather long, rounded. 

 Tarsi scutellated in front, covered behind by a single plate ,• claws moderate. 



A SPECIMEN of this common American bird, shot near 

 London, was figm'ed in 1738 by Albin, who says that he 



* Oriolas i->hoeniceux, Linnreus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 161 (1766). 

 + Agelaius (by mistake), Vieillot, Analyse &c. p. 33 (1816). 

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