Class IL 



STARE 



299 



Order V. PASSERINE. 



Strait BILL; depreffed: the NOSTRILS fur- 

 rounded with a prominent rim. 



XV. 

 STARE. 



L'Eftourneau. Belona-v. 321. Storno. Zinan. 69. 



Sturnus. Gefner a^, y^6. Olina, 18. 



AUr. a-u. ir. 284. Sturnus vulgaris. Lin. fyji. 

 Stare, or Starling. Wil. cm. 290. 



196. Stare. Faun. Suec. fp, 21 -^^ 



Rait fyn. a'v. 6j. Hajfelqiiiji ^ Itin. 284. 



L'Etourneau. BriJ/hn a^v. IF. Danish Nor-vegis, Staer. Br. 



439. Hiji. d'Ojs. III. 229. 



176. Staar. Frifchy II. 217. 



Sanfonet. PL Enl. 75. Starl. Kratn. 362. 



Starl. Si'opoli, No. 189. Br. Zool. 93. plate P. 2. f. i. 



104, Stare. 



THE Stare breeds in hollow trees, eaves of 

 houfes, towers, ruins, cliffs, and often in 

 high rocks over the fea, fuch as thofe of the TJle 

 cf Wight, It lays four or five eggs, of a pale 

 greenifli afh color; and makes its nelt of draw, 

 fmall fibres of roots, and the like. In winter, (lares 

 aflemble in vaft flocks : they colled in myriads 

 in the fens oi LdncolnflAre^ and do great damage 

 to the fen men, by roofting on the reeds, and 

 X 2 breaking 



