Bourbon crested starling (Fregilupus varius)

Query: Extinct birds

Result: 251^st of 470

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

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Description
Fregilupus varius Chromolithograph (37 x 27.5 cm)
Date 1907
Source Extinct Birds by Lionel Rothschild https://archive.org/stream/extinctbirdsatte00roth#page/n279/mode/2up
Author John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fregilupus_varius_-_John_Gerrard_Keulemans_improved.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.

Extinct birds
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