Comparison with the tarsometatarsi of other Aplonis species shows that the Huahine Starling was the second largest Aplonis species (the largest being the Samoan Starling Aplonis atrifusca).
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According to David Steadman it is possible that the 1774 painting by Georg Forster which depicts a mysterious bird from the island of Raiatea (formerly known as Ulieta) is not of a thrush or a honeyeater, as previously hypothesised, but of a relative of the Huahine Starling.
starling | Starling | Marlon Starling | Common Starling | Starling Dodd | Simon Starling | Norfolk Starling | Huahine | Hildebrandt's Starling | Ernest Starling | Polynesian Starling | Mauke Starling | Lord Howe Starling | John Starling | Brahminy Starling | William Starling Burgess | Tasman Starling | Starling (dinghy) | Samoan Starling | Ronnie Starling | Paul Starling | Malabar Starling | Lesser Blue-eared Starling | Kristy Starling | Kosrae Starling | Huahine Starling | Boris Starling | Bayliss and Starling Society | Asian Glossy Starling |
Turdidae are unknown from the Society Islands, while the Huahine Starling (Aplonis diluvialis) proves the former existence of Sturnidae.