10 



. CORYID^E. 



Young. Greenish yellow above : below whitish tinged with yellow ; 

 breast slightly streaked with brown ; the black parts of adult male 

 replaced by greenish brown. Length 9 inches. 



S.E. Europe, 

 Asia Minor, 

 Central Asia, 

 wintering in 

 India. 



58. STAELING. 

 in winter. 



STUENID^l. 



Sturnus vulgaris, Linnaeus. 



Eesident : vast arrivals 



Male. Black, with purple and green gloss, small buff tips to feathers 

 above. Head, throat, and breast with green gloss. 



Female. Similar to male, but less brightly marked. 



In winter, all the feathers of upper parts tipped with buff, those below " 

 tipped with whitish. 



Young in first plumage. Uniform greyish brown ; throat dull white ; 

 lower parts clouded with white. Length 8^ inches. 



59. EOSE-COLOTJRED STARLING. Pastor roseus (Linnaeus). Straggler, 

 spring to autumn. 



Male. Head black, with crest of pointed and elongated feathers ; back, 

 scapulars, rump, breast, sides, and belly rosy pink ; wings, tail, and 

 thighs black ; bill rose-coloured, black at base. 



Female. Crest smaller and less bright. 



Young. Crest absent ; colour greyish brown, where rosy in adults. 

 Length 8| inches. 



COEVIDJE. 



60. RED-BILLED CHOUGH. Pyrrhocoraoc graculus (LinnaBus). Very 

 local : on rocky coasts. 



Jet-black, with steel gloss : the curved bill, eyelids, legs, and feet red. 

 Length 1417 inches. 



(The Alpine Chough, P. alpinus, with a shorter and yellow bill, has 

 been recorded from Oxfordshire ; doubtless escaped.) 



N. & C. Europe, 61. .NUTCRACKER. 

 Siberia, China, Rare straggler. 



Nucifraga caryocatactes (Linnaeus). Arboreal. 



Japan. 



Head dark brown ; general colour clove-brown, most of the feathers 

 of breast, sides, aud underparts spotted with a triangular white mark. 

 Eump and upper tail-coverts uniform brown. Tail blackish, tipped 

 with white. Length 14 inches. 



Inhabits pine-forests, often where Pinus cembra is found. 



62. JAY. Garrulus glandarius (Linnaeus). 

 north as vicinity of Oban ; local in Ireland. 

 Throat white ; crown with black streaks 



Sylvan. Eesident, as far 



feathers of forehead and 

 crown edged with white ; back vinaceous ; outer web of wing-coverts 

 barred with blue and black, inner web black ; tail often barred slightly 

 at the basal end in the same manner as the outer web of wing- coverts 

 (this is not the result of age, birds in first plumage occasionally being 

 so marked) ; iris pale blue. Length 14 inches. 



