STARE. 11 



8— GRACUL1NE STARE. 



Gracula Sturnina, Ind. Orn. i. 193. Pall. It. iii. 695. 11. Gin. Lin. i. 399. Shaw's 



Zool. vii. 470. 

 Sturnus Sturninus, Daud. ii. 322. 



SIZE of the Chatterer. General colour of the plumage hoary ; 

 on the crown of the head a violet-black spot ; back, between the 

 wings, violet-black ; wings and tail green with a tinge of violet ; 

 across the former a double white stripe ; tail short. The female is 

 dull ash-colour, with the back brown ; wings and tail black without 

 any gloss. 



To this short account is added, that the bird is found in the osier 

 beds of South Dauuria, about the rivers Onon and Argun, and not 

 elsewhere ; that it has the manners of the Starling, forming the nest 

 in the same manner, and laying the same coloured eggs. 



I suspect it to be the same as the last described. 



9.— WATTLED STARE— Pl. lxxix. 



Sturnus carunculatus, Ind. Om. i. 324. Gm. Lin. i. 805. 



Gracula carunculata, Daud. ii- 292. 



Carunculated Grakle, Shaw's Zool. vii. 469. 



Wattled Stare, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 9. pl. 36. Shaw's Zool. x. 498. pl. 46. 



SIZE of our Starling; length almost ten inches. Bill rather 



long, a little bent, running almost to a point at the tip, but is there 



a trifle flattened ; colour black, tinged with blue towards the base ; 



tongue half the length of the bill, fringed at the tip ; irides dull 



hazel ; from the angle of the lower mandible on each side, springs a 



carunculated, orange-coloured membrane, tending downwards like 



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