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GENERA AND SPECIES OF BIEDS. 



Family XXXIX. STURNIDiE. 



(Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 22, 1890 ; 

 Gates, Faua. Brit. Ind., Birda, i. pp. 516-544, 

 1889 ; Hartert, Yog. palaarkt. Fauna, i. 

 pp. 41-51, 1903.) 



I. STURNUS, im«. 



(Sharpe, t. e. p. 26 ; Gates, t. c. p. 519 ; Hartert, 

 t. c. p. 41 ; Buturlin, Orn. Jahrb. xv. pp. 205- 

 213 (1904); id., Psov. i ruzejn Ochota, 

 Moskva, 1906, i. pp. 35-43.) 



1. vulgaris, lAnn. (p. 27.) 



[sophits, "Bianchi, Ann. Mus. St. Petersb. 

 p. 129 (1896) ; cf. Hartert, t. c. p. 41.] 



N. Europe. 



C. & W. Europe. 



Kussia 



(64°-60° N. Lat.). 

 S. in winter 



to N. Africa, 



Marocco to 



Egypt, Syria, 



and Persia. 

 Madeira and 

 Canary Islands. 



2. zaidamensis, 



(1904). 



., Orn. .Tabrb. xv. p. "208 Central Asia. 



3. dzungaricus, Buturlin, Orn. Jahrb. xv. p. 208 Songaria. 

 (1904). 



4. tauricus, Sutiirlin, Orn. Jahrb. xv. p. 209 Crimea. 



(1904). 



5. harterti, Buturlin, t.c. p. 210. 



Turkestan. 



