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WATTLED STARLING. 



Length about eight inches : beak and legs red- 

 dish : the entire head and the fore-part of the 

 neck yellowish white, the crown inclined to dusky: 

 the upper parts of the body pale cinereous : wings 

 glossy black : quills white at the base : the under 

 parts of the body of the same colour as the upper, 

 but paler; the vent inclining to white : tail similar 

 in colour to the wings, about two inches and a 

 half in length, and even at the end. The female is 

 brown where the male is black : the crown is also 

 black : the forehead varied with white and black, 

 and the sides of the head and spot behind the 

 eyes white: the wings incline to cinereous, and 

 are very glossy : the rump is white : the tips of 

 the tail-feathers white. Inhabits China. 



WATTLED STARLING. 

 • { Sturnus carunculatus.) 



St. niger, dorso tectricihusque alanm Jerrugineis, ad basin mau' 



dibulce inferioris palea duplici carunculata Juha, 

 Black Starling, with the back and wing-coverts rust-coloured, 



and at the base of the under mandibles of the beak a double 



carunculated fulvous wattle. 

 Sturnus carunculatus. Gmel. Syst, Nat, 1. 805. — Lath, Ind. 



Orn, 1. 324. 6. 

 Wattled Stare. Lath, Gen. Syn, 3. 9. pi. 3Q. 6, 



These most curious birds are described by Dr. 

 Latham in the following manner. " Size of our 



