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STURNUS GUTTATUS. THE SPOTTED 

 STARLING. 



STARLING. STARE. TRUID. 



flG. i&. 



Sturnus vulgaris. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 290. 



Stumus vulgaris. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 321. 



Stare or Starling. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Etoumeau vulgaire. Sturnus vulgaris. Temm. Man. d'Orn. L 132. 



III. 74. 

 Common Starling. Sturnus vulgaris. Selb. Illustr. I. 340. 

 Sturnus vulgaris. Common Starling. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 143. 



Adult male in full plumage^ 'with the feathers of the head and 

 neck lanceolate and acuminate^ of the other parts broader hut 

 tapering ; the general colour black with splendent blue and purple 

 tints ; all the feathers^ excepting on the head and fore-neclc^ with 

 a triangular white tip ; the bill pale yellow ; the feet light red- 

 dish-brown ; in spring the feathers more attenuated^ their white, 

 tips diminished. Female with the feathers as in the male^ but 

 broader^ all tipped with broader spots, of which those on the upper 

 parts are light brown, on the lower white ; the bill dusky, the 

 feet reddish-brown. Young in their first plumage of a imiform 

 greyish-brown colour ; the bill brownish-black ; the feet dusky. 



Male. — The Starling, which is one of the most beautiful of 

 our native birds, is about the size of the Common Thrush, and 



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