STARE. O 



of the quills not white; rump white; tail as the quills, tipped, for 

 one-fourth of an inch, with white, deeper on the inner webs, the 

 outer feather plain ; legs brown. 



The above described from specimens in the collection of Sir Jos. 

 Banks, who received them from China. The late Mr. Tunstal 

 informed me, that he kept one alive for some time, and that it had 

 all the actions of the Common Starling. Inhabits also Bengal, where 

 it is called Cuorley. I observed one among the drawings of Sir John 

 Anstruther, in which the breast, belly, and vent were pale rufous, 

 and no white in the wings. 



3— WHITE-HEADED STARE. 



Turdus leucocephalus, Ind. Orn. i. 348. Gm. Lin. i. 829. 

 Merle Dominicain de la Chine, Sonn. Voy. Ind. ii. 197. 

 White-headed Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 59. 



LESS than a Blackbird. Bill blackish, with a tinge of red, and 

 yellow; irides yellow ; head and neck white, the feathers long, and 

 narrow ; neck behind deep cinereous grey ; back and rump, breast 

 and belly the same, but paler; wing coverts and lesser quills copper 

 green, glossed with violet ; on the first a white spot or two ; greater 

 quills black; tail as the wing coverts; under coverts white; legs 

 yellow ; the wings reach halfway on the tail. 



The female has the head grey, as the rest of the body ; and the 

 copper gloss on the wings less brilliant. 



Inhabits China, called by some Petite Galinote. This seems 

 to coincide greatly with the Silk Starling ; yet the bill is not de- 

 pressed towards the point, as in that Genus ; on which account, 

 perhaps both these birds might rather be placed in the Thrush Genus. 



