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Bourbon crested starling (Fregilupus varius)
Subject: Bourbon crested starling (Fregilupus varius)
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Hoopoe starling.jpg
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Bourbon crested starling (Fregilupus varius)


Description
Only definite life drawing of the hoopoe starling.
Date circa 1770, published 1897.
Source Hume, J. P. (2014). "Systematics, morphology, and ecological history of the Mascarene starlings (Aves: Sturnidae) with the description of a new genus and species from Mauritius". Zootaxa 3849 (1): 1–75.
Author Paul Philippe Sauguin de Jossigny
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoopoe_starling.jpg

The hoopoe starling, also known as the Réunion starling or Bourbon crested starling (Fregilupus varius), is a species of starling which lived on the Mascarene island of Réunion, and became extinct in the 1850s.

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