WATTLED STARLING. 



LENGTH about eight inches : beak and legs red- 

 dish : the entire head and the fore-part of the 

 neck yellowish white, the crown inclined to dusky: 

 the upper parts of the body pale cinereous : wings 

 glossy black: quills white at the base: the under 

 parts of the body of the same colour as the upper, 

 but paler; the vent inclining to white: tail similar 

 in colour to the wings, about two inches and a 

 half in length, and even at the end. The female is 

 brown where the male is black : the crown is also 

 black : the forehead varied with white and black, 

 and the sides of the head and spot behind the 

 eyes white: the wings incline to cinereous, and 

 are very glossy : the rurnp is white : the tips of 

 the tail-feathers white. Inhabits China. 



WATTLED STARLING. 

 ( Sturnus carunculatus.) 



ST. uiger, dorso tectricibusque alarum jerrugineis, ad basin man- 



dibultz injerioris palea duplid carunculatajulva. 

 Black Starling, with the back and wing-coverts rust-coloured, 



and at the base of the under mandibles of the beak a double 



carunculated fulvous wattle. 

 Sturnus carunculatus. GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 805. Lath. Tnd. 



Orn. 1.324.6. 

 Wattled Stare. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 9. pi. 36. 6. 



THESE most curious birds are described by Dr. 

 Latham in the following manner. " Size of our 



