CRESTED GIIAKLE. 45^ 



The bird described by Bontius, in his History 

 of Java, under the title of the Indian Starling, ij> 

 supposed to be no other than a variety of the 

 Minor ^ seeming to differ in having the plumage 

 varied by cinereous spots. " It imitates," says 

 Willughby, ftom Bontius, " man's voice much 

 more accurately than a Parrot, so that oftentimes? 

 it is troublesome with its prattle." 



CRESTED GRAKLE. 



Gracula cristatella. G. nigra , /route crista fa, remigibns pri- 

 moribus hasi rectricibilsque apice albis, rostro flavo. 



Black Grakle, with frontal crest, greater quill-feathers white at 

 their base, tail-feathers at their tip, and yellow bill. 



Gracula cristatella. G. nigroy remigibus primoribus basi rectri' 

 cibusque apice albis, rostro flam. Lin. Syst, Nat, 



The Chinese Starling or Black-Bird. Edw. pi. 19. 



Le Merle hup6 de la Chine. Bvff. ois. PL Eul. 507, 



Crested Grakle. Lath. syn. 



This species is described by Edwards under the 

 title of Chinese Starling. " It is,'* says Edwards, 



about the bigness of the lesser sort of Minor: the 

 bill is pretty thick towards the head, strait; grows 

 gradually more slender, and ends in a point, of a 

 yellow colour: yet the lower mandible, towards 

 the head, inclines more to red: the nostrils are 

 low on each side, pretty near the slit of the mouth: 

 the eye is of a fuie gold or orange-colour: it has 

 on the forehead, just at the basis of the bill, a re- 

 markable tuft of feathers, which it can erect at 

 pleasure in form of a crest: the crown of the head 



