154 WHITE-BODIED GRAKLE. 



the breast to the under tail-covers, the plumage is 

 of a snowy whiteness. 



The female is totally different. The upper plu- 

 mage is varied, with light ferruginous on a brownish - 

 black ground ; each of the body-feathers, above, 

 being brown with only the side margins ferruginous. 

 The wing-covers, scapulars, and tertials have each a 

 narrow margin all round ; but there is none on the 

 other quills or on the tail. The under plumage to the 

 breast is rufous-white, with a narrow stripe down 

 each feather ; the breast and the remaining parts pure 

 white, with similar stripes but larger and longer ; 

 base of the quills, beneath, pure ferruginous ; under 

 tail-covers, white ; bill and legs, brown. 



Total length, 6 inches ; bill, from the gape, T 6 5 ; 

 wings, 3f ; tail, beyond, ; from the base, 2| ; 

 tarsus, JQ. 



From the starling family we pass on to that of the 



