3. 
LOUISIANE 
STARE, 
DESCRIPTION. 
3. 
Var. A. 
+- CRESCENT 
STARE, 
DESCRIPTION. 
Si T A RE: 
neck to the vent is white: the upper wing coverts are black, 
variegated with fix fpots of white: quills and tail black: legs 
yellow-brown. . 
Thefe are clearly varieties of each other. We are told that 
this bird is called by the name of Contra, in the places where it 
inhabits. 
Sturnus Ludovicianus, Liz. Sy. i. p. 290. f. 36 
L’Etourneau de la Louifiane, Bri/. orz. ii. p. 449. N° 4. pl. 42. f. 1. 
L’Etourneau de la Louifiane ou Le Stourne, Buf. o//. iii. p. 192.—P/. enl. 256. 
1ZE ofa Thruh: length nine inches and a half. Bill whitith, 
with a brown tip: the upper parts of the plumage are brown 
and rufous grey mixed : on the head three ftripes of white; one 
down the middle of the crown, and one over each eye: cheeks, 
throat, fore part of the neck, breaft, and belly, fine yellow: on 
the fore part of the neck is a large fpot of black feathers, each 
of which is tipped with grey: fides, thighs, and under tail 
coverts, dirty white, marked with fome {pots of brown: beneath 
the wings whitifh grey: edge of the wing yellow: quills rufous 
grey, blended with brown on the outer webs: tail the fame; 
but the four outer feathers are white within: legs and claws 
grey. 
Alauda magna, Liz. Sy/. p. 289. N° 11. 
Le Merle a Collier d’Amerique, Brif. orz. ii, 242. No15. 
Le Fer-a-cheval, ou Merle a Collier d’Amerique, Buf. o7/, iii, p. 371+ 
Large Lark, Care. Car. i. pl. 33. 
Crefcent Starling, Aré. Zool. ‘ 
Br. Muf. Lev. Mu. 
IZE of a Blackbird: length eleven inches. Bill blackifh: 
top of the head and neck brown; fides of them pale grey: 
from the bale of the bill, and down the crown to the hind head, 
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