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the family in being depressed, not compressed, throughout. 

 Tarsus longer than the middle toe. Wings long. Second 

 feather longest. Tail short. 



57. STUENUS VULGAEIS, L. Stare. The Common Starling. 



D. F. 



Length, about 8 in. Colour black, with purple, red, 

 green, and blue metallic gloss above, and sometimes 

 green below, bestrewed with small pale rusty yellow 

 spots. Both sexes alike. Young, grey-brown, un- 

 spotted. 



Is a summer migrant to this country, and is then met 

 with in all parts up to within the Polar circle. Nilsson says 

 it is not seen in Finmark. M. v. Wright, however, says 

 that it is met with in great numbers in the south of that 

 country, and even in smaller numbers near Uleaborg. 



Gen. Gracula, Cuv. 

 Beak long, straight, conical ; head crested ; tail square. 



58. GEACULA KOSEA, Cuv. Eosenfargad Drossel. TheEose- 



coloured Pastor. D. F. 



Length about 8 in. ; body colour rose red ; head, 

 wings, and tail black ; the crest on the head bent back 

 over the neck. 



Has only been occasionally killed in Scandinavia, and 

 the examples have always been solitary. It has, however, 

 according to Nilsson, been once killed in Lapland, and ac- 

 cording to M. v. Wright, once near Abo, in Finland. 



Gen. Oriolusj L. 



Beak conical; legs short; wings long; third feather 

 longest; tail long, square at the end; tarsus not longer 

 than middle toe. 



59. OEIOLUS GALBULA, L. Sommar Gylling. The Golden 



Oriole. D. F. 



About the size of a blackbird ; the under wing coverts, 

 the point of the tail, and its under coverts, pale yellow. 

 Male bright yellow, with a black band between the 



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