Passeres 



85 



Family STURNID.^, or Starlings 



It is difficult to believe that the Starling {Stumus 

 vulgaris), which is now so abundant from Shetland to 



Starling 



Cornwall, was hardly known north of the Scottish 

 Border at the beginning of last century. The increase 

 of late years has been enormous, and it is now no 



