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with occasional stripes of pale dusky or brown down the 

 centres of the feathers. 



Entire length 9' 5 inches ; culmen 1 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 6 ; tarsus 0"9. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 71. 



Fam. STURNID^. 



128. Sturnxjs vulgaris, Linn. Starling. 



This bird is a winter visitant, and may be found plentifully 

 in the Delta up to the end of March ; it may also occasionally 

 be met with in Middle and, possibly, Upper Egypt. 



General plumage deep metallic green, with purple reflections 

 on the throat and back ; more or less of the feathers on the 

 upper surface tipped with buff, and those on the under sur- 

 face with white, according to the age of the bird ; wings and 

 tail brown, with pale edging to the feathers. Legs pale 

 brown ; beak brown, except in breeding-plumage, when it is 

 bright yellow; ii-ides dark brown. 



Entire length 8'3 inches; culmen 1 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 4 '8 ; tarsus r2. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 210. 



129. Pastor ROSEUS (Linn.). Bose-coloured Pastor. 



Von Heughn (Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 531) says that he only 

 knows of a single instance of this bird's capture in Egypt, 

 when a young bird was killed in a field near Cairo, on the 

 25th of August, 1S64. 



