

SILK STARLING. 497 



another beyond the eyes, and a double one on the scapulars 



white. 

 Sturnus viridis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 805. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



325. 9. 

 Green Stare. Osbeck. Voy. Chin. 2. Wj.Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 



10. 9. 



DESCRIBED by Osbeck, in his Voyage to China, 

 as a native of that country : it has a tuft of black 

 and white feathers on the forehead and chin, with 

 a white spot on the front of the crown, and another 

 beyond the eyes : the upper parts of its plumage 

 are green : the scapulars are adorned with two 

 white spots : the wings green, with the outer webs 

 and the shafts of the feathers white : the fore-part 

 of the neck, breast, and belly, pale cserulean : the 

 tail very similar to the wings, but the outer webs 

 of the feathers are not white : legs grey blue. 



SILK STARLING. 



(Sturnus sericeus.) 



ST. pallide griseus, capitejlavescente-albo, basi remigum albo, re- 



migibus rectricibusque nigris. 

 Pale grey Starling, with the head yellowish-white, the base of 



the wing white, and the quills and tail-feathers black. 

 Sturnus sericeus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 805. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



324. 8. 

 Silk Starling. Brown. III. Zool.pl. 11. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 10. 



8.-Lath. Syn. Sup. 137. 8- 



