Bourbon crested starling (Fregilupus varius)

Query: hoopoe

Result: 49^th of 169

Subject:	Bourbon crested starling (Fregilupus varius)
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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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