446 — APPENDIX. 
Sturnopastor contra, Lin. 
683.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 328. 
THE PIED STARLING. 
‘ Ablak, Hin. 
Length, 9; wing, 4°75; tail, 2°75; tarsus, 1:25; bill at front, 113. 
Bill red at base, yellow at tip; irides. brown; nude skin and 
orbits orange-yellow ; legs yellowish. 
Head, neck, and upper part of breast, glossy black; ear- 
coverts white, extending in a narrow line to the nape; back, 
wings, and tail, black, slightly glossed ; upper tail-coverts white, 
as also an oblique bar on the wing, caused by the lesser coverts 
and outer portion of:the scapulars; beneath, from the breast, 
white, tinged with reddish-ash ; under tail-coverts pure white. 
The young bird is more brown than black, and the colors are 
less defined. 
IT am not sure that I am correct in including the Pied Starling 
in the Birds of Bombay, but soon after leaving Khundwa, my 
attention was attracted toa bird strange to me. I noticed the 
bird at intervals until I left the train at Jubbulpore, when I 
found it to be the Pied Starling. It is quite common at Saugor, 
and I feel sure that specimens must straggle to the presidency. 
| Otocorys pencillata, Gould. 
763.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 429. 
THE HorneD LARK. 
Length, 8; wing. 4°5; tail, 3; tarsus, 1; bill from gape, 0°8. 
Bill and feet black. 
- Head,-neck,-and-back, streakless vinaceous-ashy, passing to 
purer grey on the wings; narrow frontal band, lores,.ear-coverts, 
and the sides of the neck, meeting as a gorget across the breast, 
purple black ; the crown and the pointed’ sincipital tufts also 
black; forehead, supercilia, continued round the  ear-coverts 
posteriorly, throat, and below the breast, white, the latter tinged 
with yellow; primaries fuscous-ashy, the first externally, white ; 
the tail blackish, except the medial feathers, which are colored 
like the back, and the outermost and penultimate, which have 
white margins; © | 
