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PLAcE, 
8. 
SILK STARE. 
DrscriprTion. 
PLacg. 
9: 
GREEN STARE, 
DeEscriPrion, 
Sa, (A ORE, 
more in length, of a red or deep orange colour: on the crown 
are two pointed combs; the one behind the other, ftanding up- 
right : the eyes are furrounded by a broad bare yellow {pace : 
the plumage in general of a dirty afh-colour, the under parts 
paleft: the quills and tail black; the laft even at the end, or at 
leaft but very little rounded: the legs are long, and of a pale 
yellow-brown colour. 
Three of thefe birds were fent into Holland from the Cape of 
Good Hope in fpirits: one of them wanted the pointed combs on 
the crown; the other had only a rudiment, and the wattle like- 
wife was fmaller: it was fuppofed that the wattles were originatly 
red, but the fpirits had taken out much of their colour. 
Silk Starling, Brown. Ii/. pl. 21. 
IZE of a Starling. The bill of a deep orange: the whole 
head yellowifh white: body entirely of a pale grey: the 
plumage in general gloffy and filky : wings black, croffed with a 
bar of white: the tail black: legs reddifh yellow. 
Inhabits China. 
I obferved one of thefe among fome Chinefe paintings. The 
bill was red: the head white: upper parts of the body black ; — 
the under dufky: legs red. This was perhaps the oppofite fex. 
Green Stare, Of. Voy. ii. p. 327. 
N the forehead and chin is a tuft of black and white feathers: 
above the firft is a fpot of white: beyond the eye another: 
the whole upper part of the body green: on the feapulars are 
two white fpots: wings and tail green; the outer webs of the — 
5 firft 
