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Order III. PASSERINE. 



Genus XXX. STARE.. 



Common Stare, Gen. Syii. iii. p. 2. N° I. — Jrd. Zool. ii. p. 331. A, 

 Sturnus vulgaris, Sefp Fog. pi. in p. z^.—Faan. Arag. p. 84. 



T N HABITS Euro-pe, as high as Salten, in the diocefe of Dron- 

 theim, in Norway , and in great numbers in N<£fne Helgeland, in 

 Feroe, and in Iceland*. In the north of England is, called Cbej>Jier, 

 and Chep-Starling f . 



-i- COMMON 

 STARE. 



Silk Stare, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 10. N" 8. 8. 



SILK STARE. 

 T ENGTH eight inches. Bill purplifh red, the end dufliy : Description. 



the whole head and fore part of the neck yellowifh white, in- Male. 



clined to dufky on the crown : upper part of the body fine pale 

 a(h-co]our : wings and tail glofly black ; bafe of the quills white, 

 forming a fpot on the outer part of the wing: baftard wing white: 

 tail two inches and a half long, even at the end : the under parts 

 of the body of the fame colour as the upper, but paler, and ap- 

 proaching to white at the vent : legs reddifh, or pale yellow. 



The female is brown where the male is black : the crown of the Female, 

 head is black ; forehead mixed black and white ; fides of the head 

 and behind the eye white : the back as in the male: wings glofly 



* Ara.ZooI. 



t Mr. Tunjiall. 



SuPPL. 



brown. 



