L O I S I A N E S T A R E, ^ 531 



Sturnus Ludovicianus, Lin. Syjl. tgo.-^Latham, iii. 6. B^j. Lou!s?anr. 



L'Etourneau de la Louifiane, De Buffon, iii. i<jz.~-BriJfon, li. 449.— P/. £«/. 256. 



T. "With a whitifh bill, tipped with brown: with the crown, 

 backj wings, and tail of a rufty afli-color j the firft marked 

 along the nniddle with a white line ; and another of the fame color- 

 over each eye j inner webs of the four outmoft feathers white : in 

 front of the neck a large black fpot ; each feather tipt with grey : 

 reft of the fore part of the negk^, breaft, and belly* of a rich yellow : 

 thighs and vent dirty white. 



Inhabits Lotdjiana, Placs* 



A. Stare, Sr. ZooL 1. N" 104. Stare. 



Sturnus, vulgaris Stare, Faun. SuecH" SI3. 

 L'Etourneau, De Buffont iii. 176. — Latham, iii, 2.— Lev. Mus.-=-Bt. Mus. 



CT. With a yellow bill : black body glofled with purple, and 

 fpotted with yellow and white : legs black. 



Inhabits Europe as high as Salten, in the diocefe of Drontheim, Pi.acb. 



in Norway ; and in great numbers in l^ajns Helgeland *, in Feroe^ 

 and in Iceland f. They migrate from Norway, a few excepted, 

 ■which lodge in the fiflures of the rocky ifle near Siavanger^ at 

 the fouthern extremity of that kingdom, and come out to bafk in 

 the funny days of winter. They are found in vaft flocks in all 

 farts of Ru£ia, and the weft of SiUriai but are very fcarce beyond 



* LtimSi 194. t Brunnich, 64. 



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