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BIRDS, 



ORDER III. PASSERINE. 



GENUS XXXVII— STARE. 



1 Common Stare 



4 Louisiane 



8 Graculine 



A White 



A Crescent 



9 Wattled 



B Pied 



5 Magellanic 



10 Green 



C White-headed 



A Lo)'ca 



11 Brown 



D Grey 



6 Persian 



12 Black 



2 Silk 



7 Dauurian 



13 Sardinian 



3 White-headed 







.DILL straight, or very little bending, depressed. 

 Nostrils guarded above by a prominent rim. 

 Tongue hard and cloven, or jagged at the tip. 

 The middle toe united to the outer as far as the first joint. 



1— COMMON STARE. 



Sturnus vulgaris, Ind. Orn. i. 321. Lin. i. 290. Faun. Suec. No. 213. Gm. Lin. i: 

 801. Scop. i. No. 47. Hasselq. It. 287. Id. Eng. 206. Brun. No. 229. Mull. 

 p. 28. Kram. 361. 1. Sepp. Vog. t. p. 25. Rait, p. 67. A. 1. Will. 144. t. 37. 

 Frisch, t. 217. Fn. Arag. p. 84. Borowsk. iii. 202. t. 74. Scheef. el. orn. t. 65. 

 Hist. Prov. i. 492. Bris. ii. 439. Id. 8vo. i. 280. Klein, 64. 1. Id. Stem. 10. 

 t. 12. f. 5. a. b. c. Id. Ov. 22. t. 8. f. 7. Gen'n. iii. t. 315. 316. Daudin, ii. 

 p. 300. Beseke, Vog. Kurl. No. 155. i?im. ^4/ep. p. 69. r«n. Man. d'Orn. p. 81. 

 /d. Ed. ii. p. 133. 



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