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DAUURIAN STARLING. 



The CoDtra Starling may possibly be only the 

 immature plumage of the preceding, which it 

 greatly resembles, having, like that species, the 

 head, neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and 

 scapulars, black : a white line also is observed to 

 arise from the beak, which inclines to the hind 

 head : beneath the eye is a white spot, and round 

 the upper part of the neck is a band of a dingy 

 white : the upper wing-coverts are black, varie- 

 gated with six white spots : the under parts of the 

 body, from the breast to the vent, are white : the 

 quills and tail are black : the legs yellowish brown. 

 Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and is known 

 by the name of Contra. 



DAUUBIAN STARLING. 

 (Sturnus Dauuricus.) 



St. corpore supra atro-violaceo, suhtus cinerascente-albo, capite 



cerviceque ccerulescente-canis, verticis litura violaceo atra. 

 Starling with the body above dark violet, beneath greyish white, 



with the head and top of the neck hoary blue, the crown with 



a dark violet stripe. 

 Sturnus Dauuricus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 806.— Pall. Act. Holm. 



1778. 3. ig8.--Lath. Ind. Orn, 1. 325. 13. 

 Etourneau de la Daoure. Daud. Orn. 2. 302. 

 Dauurian Stare. Lath. Syn. Sup. II, 175. 3. 



Inhabits the willow plantations of Dauuria : it 

 is in length six inches : its beak is black : irides 



