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Familj' STURXID.E. 



Genus STURNUS, Linn. 



Sturnus vulgaris, Liniu 



Stui'iiiis VLilf^aris, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vo(/. tab. xxxviii. fag. 1, a, b 

 (1840-54:); Hewitson, Ei/i/s of Brit. Birds, i. p. 216, pi. Iv. fig. 1 

 (18o6) ; Dresser, Birds Eilr. iv. p. 405 (1874) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, 

 ii. p. 12, pl. 11 (1834) ; Sharjye, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 27 (1890); 

 Seebohm, Ei/r/s of Brit. Birds, p. 230, pl. 54. lig. 13 (1896) ; Dresser, 

 Man. PaL 'Birds, i. p. 3i>9 (1902); Ret/, Eier Voy. 3Iif.telei(rnp. i. 

 p. 349 (1905) ; Jourd. Er/tjs Europ. Birds, i. p. 34 (1906) ; Dresser, 

 Eqqs Birds Europe, p. 340, pl. xxiii. figs. 1 & 2 (1908) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. v. p. 512 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 348 (1910). 



Sturnus varius, Baedeker. Eier Eur. Tot/, tab. 50. fig. 12 (1855-63 ). 



Sturnus vulgaris vulgaris, Hartert, J'of/. pal. Faun. i. p. 41 (1910). 



The eggs of the Common Starling are mostly of an ordinary oval 

 shape and highly glossy. They vary in colour from bluish-white to 

 a pale greenish-blue. They measure h'om 1-08 to 1-3 in length, 

 and from "S to -9 in breadth. 



3. Keswick, Cumberland. 

 15. Cambridgeshire. 



6. Iladdenham, Cambridgeshire, 23i'd 



May. 



4. Southi^ry, Norfolk, 28th April. 



5. Southery, 20tk May. 



5. Southery, 10th June. 



4. Cookham, Berkshire, April. 

 3. Cookham, April. 



7. Berkshire, 25th April. 



6, Alton, Hants, Mav. 



5. Bentley, Hants, ioth April (//. 



If. Iiir/ram: Hurr/itt Coil.). 

 5. Bentley, lath May. 



5. Finchley, Middlesex (0. Saliun). 



6. Stolp, I'omerania, Jst May (T. 



IIol/a)id). 

 5. Stolp, 8th Mav (7". 7/. >. 

 5. Stolp, 20th May (T. IL). 

 5. l^Muback, Vorarlberg, Tvrol, 30ih 



Mav. 



Seebohm Coll. 



F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



W. Radcliife Saunders, Esq. 



W. BadcliiTe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. RadclifJe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm C'nll. 

 W. Iladclilib Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Sturnus faroensis, Feilden. 



Sturnus vulgaris, Feilden, Zoologist, 1872, p. 3219; Dresser, Egijs Bird 

 Europe, p. 340; pl. xxiii. fig. 3 (190S). 



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