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Or pe Ry LHS PATS S ROR MINE 
Genus XXXI. STARLING. 
N° t. Perfian St. N° 3. Dauurian St. 
2. Magellanic St. 
Sturnus moritanicus, Jad. Orz, i. p. 325. 11.—S. G. Gmel. I. iv. p. 174.— 
awe 
PERSIAN Pall. n. Nord. Beytr. iv. p. 52. 
ST. Etourseau more, Daudin. Ora. i. p. 302. 
HIS is about the fize of the Skylark: the tip of the bill is black : 
general colour of the plumage afh colour: fore part of the head 
and the throat mixed with white : ‘the belly {potted with rufous. 
Prace. Inhabirs the alpine parts of Perfia ; makes the neft in the hollows 
of rocks, and lives on infects, 
DESCRIPTION. 
Sturnus Loyca, Ind. Orn. i. p. 325. 12- 
Ze 
MAGELLANIC militaris, Zzd, Orz. i. p. 323. 4?—Daud. Orn. ive. 305. 
ST. Magellanic Stare, Gen. Syz. lll. p. 7: 
Description. IZE of the common cae general colour mixed brown and 
whitifh: breaft crimfon: female pale grey; breaft crimfon, but 
of a much paler colour. 
Inhabits Chi/i; makes the neft in the hollows of the earth, lays three 
orey eggs, varied with brown; faid to fing {weetly, is eafily tamed, and 
efteemed much by the natives, who entertain fome fuperftitious ideas 
in refpect to its fong, burt likewife value it on account of the beauty 
of its feathers, with which they form aigrettes. It may poffibly be 
5 E a variety 
PLace. 
