406 STURNID^E. 



5. vulgar is, but are smaller. They measure from 1 to 1-18 in 

 length, and frdm '7 to *82 in breadth. 



9. Eastern Narra, Sind, 13tli March Hume Coll. 



(S. Doig). 



61. Eastern Narra (S. D.). Hume Coll. 



2. Eastern Narra (E. A. Butler).' Crowley Bequest. 



Sturnus unicolor, Temm. 



4 



Sturnus unicolor, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxxriii. fi<r. 2, a, b 

 (1845-54); Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 60. fig. 33 (1855-63); 

 Bree, Birds Eur. i. p. 156, pi. (1866), 2nd ed. ii. p. 16, nl. (1875) ; 

 Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 220; Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 415 

 (1874) ; Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 39 (1890) ; Irby, Orn. Sir. 

 Gibr. 2nd ed. p. 78 (1895) ; Hartert, Vog. pal Foun. i. p,46 (1903) ; 

 Jtey, Eier Vog. Mitteleurop. i. p. 351 (1905) ; Jourdain, Eggs Europ. 

 Birds, i. p. 38 (1906); Dresser, Eggs Birds Europe, p. 343,' pi. xxiii. 

 fig-. 4 (1908); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 514 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. 

 Eiersamml. p. 348 (1910). 



The eggs of the Sardinian Starling are not separable from those 

 of S. vulgaris. They measure from I'l to 1-33 in length, and 

 from '8 to '9 in breadth. 



2. Central Spain. Lord Lilford [P.]. 

 4. Andalucia, 6th May (H. Saunders). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Andalucia, 6th May (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 

 1. Seville, Spain (L. If. Irby). Seebohm Coll. 

 ] . Seville, 20th April (L. II. /.). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Malaga, Spain, 29th April. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



6. Morocco, 20th April (Field Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 

 3. Morocco (Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



5. Sicily, 13th April. "W. Badcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Genus SPODIOPSAR, Sharpe. 



Spodiopsar cineraceus, Temm. 



Sturnns cineraceus, Blakist. $ Prycr, Ibis, 1878, p. 233 ; Seebohm, Bird* 



Japan. Emp. p. 107 (1890). 

 Spodiopsar cineraceus, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 524 (1889) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 120 (1899), p. 348 (1910); Hartert. Vog. 



pal. Faun. i. p. 48 (1903) ; Sharpe, Hand-l v. p. 515 (1909). 

 Poliopsar cineraceus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 41 (1890). 



The eggs of the Grey Myna are of a broad, pointed oval form, 

 slightly glossy, and of a pale greenish-blue colour. Five examples 

 measure respectively: 1-14 by '8; 1-33 by '82; 3/09 by -82; 

 1-07 by -82 ; 1-07 by -77. 



2. Amur River (Nehrkom Coll.}. Crowley Bequest. 



3. Japan (H. Pryer). Seebohm Coll. 



