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LOUISIANE STARLING. 

 (Sturnus ludovicianus.) 



St. griseo Juscoque maculatus, subtus Jlavus, linea capitis super- 



ciliisque albis, gula nigra. 

 Starling spotted with grey and brown ; beneath yellow ; with a 



line on the head and the eyebrows white ; the throat black. 

 Sturnus ludovicianus. Lin, Si/st, Nat, 1. 29O. 3. — Gmel, Syst, 



Nat, 1. 802. — Briss, Orn, 2. AACj. 4. pi. 42. f, 1. — Lath. Lnd, 



Orn. 1. 323. 3. 



Etourneau de la Louisiane. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 192. — Buff. 

 PI. Enl. 256. 



Louisiane Starling. Pen, Arct. Zool. 2. 193. — LatJi. Gen. Syn, 

 3. 6. 3. 



The Louisiane Stare is common in some of the 

 provinces of North America : it is in length nine 

 inches and a half : its beak is whitish at the base 

 and brown at the tip : the upper parts of its plum- 

 age are varied with brown and reddish grey : its 

 head has three white stripes, one of them over 

 each eye, and the other down the crown : edge of 

 the wing yellow: the quills rufous grey, varied 

 with brown on the outer webs : the cheeks, throat, 

 fore-part of the neck, breast, and belly, of a clear 

 yellow; the fore-part of the neck being orna- 

 mented with a fine patch of black, the ends of 

 each of the feathers of which it is composed being 

 tipped with grey: the sides, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts, sullied white, sprinkled with a few 



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