St A) Ret) NG. 
a variety of our Magellanic Stare; but no mention is made of the 
crimfon lore, or fpots on or near the eyes. 
Sturnus Dauuricus, Jnd. Orz, 1. p. 325. 13.—Pall, AG. Stock. 1778. iii. px 198. 
Etourneau de la Daourie, Daudin. Orn. ii, p. 302. 
HIS is about fix inches in length: the bill black, rather fhorter 
and more bent than ufual in the genus: irides brown; before 
and over the eyes a white ftreak: general colour of the body violet 
black ; beneath cinereous white: the head and nape blueifh white ; 
on the crown of the male a violet black, ftripe, which is brown in the 
female: the wing coverts black glofled with green: quills black ; 
the two inmoft white at the tip, the reft outwardly are tipped with 
white: tail fomewhat forked; the coverts of it violet ; the feathers 
of the tail greenifh black : legs biue black. 
Inhabits in the willow beds of Dauuria, feeding on both vegeta- 
bles and infects ; lays three eggs, of a ferruginous colour, tinged with 
blue, 
175 
3 
DAUURIAN 
SA 
Describe Tion. 
Placw. 
