Bourbon crested starling (Fregilupus varius) Description
English: Extinct Starling of Réunion (Fregilupus varius), adapted from figured by Daubenton, Levaillant and others. Reduced. Cleaned version of scanned EB image taken from: http://projects.ericshalov.com/freeimages/image.php?id=206.
Date 1911
Source Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Vol. 3, Page 976
Author Encyclopedia Britannica
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1911_EB_Starling_of_R%C3%A9union.png
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.