| systematics, morphology, and ecological history of the mascarene starlings (aves: sturnidae) with the description of a new genus and species from mauritius. | two endemic starlings, both extinct, have been described from the mascarene islands of réunion and rodrigues: the hoopoe starling, huppe or réunion crested starling fregilupus varius, which is known from 19 skins and a single holocene proximal end of a fossil femur, and the rodrigues starling necropsar rodericanus, which is known as specimens only from fossils of most skeletal elements. both were recorded alive in early accounts of mascarene faunas. a third species of starling cryptopsar ischyrh ... | 2014 | 25112426 |