Bourbon crested starling (Fregilupus varius)

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Subject:	Bourbon crested starling (Fregilupus varius)
Poster:	Wiki Photos (---@---.---)

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Description
"Le Huppe, du Cap du bonne-Esperance". From Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux (1770). By François-Nicolas Martinet (c. 1725-c. 1804) (artist and engraver) & Comte de Buffon (Georges Louis Leclerc) (1707-1788) (editor).
Date 1770s
Source http://extinct-website.com/extinct-website/product_info.php?products_id=575
Author François-Nicolas Martinet (1739–1797)
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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