446 APPENDIX. 



Sturnopastor contra, Lin. 



683. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 323. 

 THE PIED STAKLING. 

 Ablak, Hin. 



Length, 9; wing, 475; tail, 275; tarsus, T25; bill at front, 113. 



Bill red at base, yellow at tip ; irides brown ; nude skin and 

 orbits orange-yellow ; legs yellowish. 



Head, neck, and upper part of breast, glossy black ; ear- 

 coverts white, extending in a narrow line to the nape ; back, 

 wings, and tail, black, slightly glossed ; upper tail-coverts white, 

 as also an oblique bar on the wing, caused by the lesser coverts 

 and outer portion of the scapulars ; beneath, from the breast, 

 white, tinged with reddish-ash ; under tail-coverts pure white. 



The young bird is more brown than black, and the colors are 

 less defined. 



I am not sure that I am correct in including the Pied Starling 

 in the Birds of Bombay, but soon after leaving Khundwa, my 

 attention was attracted to a bird strange to me. I noticed the 

 bird at intervals until I left the train at Jubbulpore, when I 

 found it to be the Pied Starling. It is quite common at Saugor, 

 and I feel sure that specimens must straggle to the presidency. 



Otocorys pencillata, Gould. 



763. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 429. 

 THE HORNED LARK. 



Length, 8 ; wing, 4'5 ; tail, 3 ; tarsus, 1 ; bill from gape, 0'8. 



Bill and feet black. 



Head, neck, and back, streakless vinaceous-ashy, passing to 

 purer grey on the wings ; narrow frontal band, lores, ear-coverts, 

 and the sides of the neck, meeting as a gorget across the breast, 

 purple black ; the crown and the pointed sincipital tufts also 

 black ; forehead, supercilia, continued round the ear-coverts 

 posteriorly, throat, and below the breast, white, the latter tinged 

 with yellow ; primaries fuscous-ashy, the first externally, white ; 

 the tail blackish, except the medial feathers, which are colored 

 like the back, and the outermost and penultimate, which have 

 white margins. 



