10 STARE. 



feathers the same ; the others greyish red, margined or fringed with 

 white ; legs flesh-coloured. 



The female much like the male, but paler in colour. 



Inhabits the Sunamisic Alps of Persia. When young the colours 

 incline to yellowish, and the lesser wing coverts are margined with 

 yellowish red. It makes the nest in high trees, and sometimes in 

 the holes of rocks, and subsists on insects. Met with in the middle 

 of July. M. Temminck unites this to the Alpine Warbler, but 

 Gmelin and Pallas esteem it a distinct species. 



7— DAUURIAN STARE. 



Stumus Dauuricus, Ind. Orn. i. 325. Gm. Lin. i. S06. Pall. Act. Stockh. 1778. iii. 



198. Daud. ii. 302. 

 Dauurian Stare, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 175. Shaiv's Zool. x. 492. 



THIS is rather longer than six inches. Bill black, rather shorter 

 than usual in the Genus ; irides brown ; before, and over the eye a 

 white streak ; general colour of the body violet black ; beneath 

 cinereous white ; head and nape bluish white ; in the male the crown 

 has a violet black stripe down the middle, in the female a brown 

 one ; wing coverts black, glossed with green ; quills black ; the two 

 innermost are white at the tip, the rest outwardly tipped with white; 

 tail somewhat forked, and greenish black, its coverts violet ; legs 

 blue black. 



Inhabits the willow beds of Dauuria ; feeds on both vegetables 

 and insects; lays three ferruginous eggs, tinged with blue. 



