BIRDS. PASSERE3. 76, Sturnus. 489 
Inliabits Ceylon ; imitates the notes of other birds. 
^ill black ; head yellowifh ; legs blueilh-grey. 
Olive ; eye-barid bluelflie bill and legs teddilh. 
Brawn S- 
Inhabits China. Belly yellowilh ; tail long. 
Orcch, beneath blueifli; a tuft of black and white fea- 
thers on the front and chin. Green S. 
Inhabits China. 
Above the front and behind the eyes a White fpot, and 2 on the 
fhoulder?; quillfeathers and {hafts of the tail-featheri 
white ; legs blue-alh. 
Pale grey ; wings and tail Mack,' the former with a tran{- 
verfe white bar; head ochre-yelloW* Silk S. 
Inliabits China : fize of S. vulgaris. 
Bill and tegs orange or red ; plumage fitky. 
^ill and legs black ; at each angle of the mouth a pendent 
orange wattle. JVattled S. 
Inhabits New Zealand ; to inches long. 
Bemale, ruhy-brown, with very fraall wattles. 
Male, black ; back and zding-coverts ferruginous. 
^lackilh-brown; fpotted with browii ; flanks rufous ; chin 
white, fpotted with brown. Collared S. 
Inhabits Switzerland and Italy : Itic of a field-fare ; is folitary, 
Wags its tail, feeds on feeds, fings with a very SVeak voice 
and builds on the ground or in tlefts Of rocks. 
Upper mandible brown, lower yellowifh tipt with brown; 
brtafl brown-afli ; belly rufous ; quillfeathers blackilh, the 
«dge at the tip and inner fide reddiih ; tail brown ; legs 
horn-colour. 
Body .above violet-black; beneaith alhy-white; head and 
neck blueilh-afli ; crown with a violet-black ftreak, 
(in the female) brown. 
Inhabits among the ozier plantations of Dauuria ; above 6 inches 
, long ; feeds on vegetables and infefts. ^ 
Bill black, {horter and more convex than in others of its tnbe , 
tongue blackilh ; irids brown ; downy eyelids and loftt 
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