6 STARE. 



4.— LOUISIANE STARE. 



Sturnus Ludovicianus, Ind. Orn. i. 323. Lin. i. 290. Gm. Lin. i. 802. Bris. ii. 449. 



t. 42. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 283. 

 Cacicus Alaudarius, Fer a Cheval, JDaud. ii. 325. 

 Etourneau de la Louisiane, Buf. iii. 192. PI. enl. 256. 

 Louisiane Stare, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 6. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 193. Shaw's Zool. x. 495. 



SIZE of a large Thrush ; length nine inches and a half. Bill 

 whitish, with a brown tip ; plumage above brown and rufous-grey 

 mixed ; on the head three stripes of white, one down the middle of 

 the crown, and one over each eye ; cheeks, throat, fore part of the 

 neck, breast, and belly fine yellow ; on the neck a large black spot, 

 the feathers of which are tipped with grey ; sides, thighs, and under 

 tail coverts dirty white, marked with some spots of brown ; beneath 

 the wings whitish grey; edge of the wing yellow; quills rufous-grey, 

 blended with brown on the outer webs ; tail the same, but the four 

 outer feathers are white within ; legs grey. 



A. — Alauda magna, Ind. Orn. i. 323. 3. A. Lin. i. 289. Gm. Lin. i. 801. Klein, 



72. 6. Borowsk. iii. 196. t. 73. Bartr. 288. Amer. Orn. iii. pi. 19. f. 2. 

 Merula Americana torquata, Bris. ii. 242. Id. 8vo. i. 225. 

 Le Merle a Collier, Fer k Cheval, Bris. iii. 371. 

 Alouette de Surinam, Term. Sarin, ii. 199 ? 



Large Lark, Gates. Car. i. pi. 33. Gent. Mag. V. 23. pi. p. 324. 

 Crescent Stare, Gen. Syn. iii. p. 6. 3. A. Arct. Zool. ii. 192. Nat. Misc. pi. 349. 



Length eleven inches. Bill blackish ; top of the head and neck 

 brown ; sides of them pale grey ; from the base of the bill and down 

 the crown a pale grey stripe ; between the bill and eye a luteous 

 spot, and behind each eye a black stripe, one inch in length ; the 

 upper parts of the body, wings, and tail brown, mixed with rufous 

 and blackish, not unlike the colours of a Partridge; feathers on 

 the sides marked with long brown streaks down the shaft, all the 



