MIMICRY OF STARLING 



is here transcribed : — Blackbird's alarm — martin's 

 cry, exactly — yellow bunting's song — chaffinch'sy?;2/i^ 

 fink^ exactly — swallow's song. Every imitation was 

 a very good one. Mr. Sutton A. Davies, of Win- 

 chester College, informs me {in litt.) that the larks 

 in his neighbourhood imitate the common bunting;. 



Mimicry of the Starling 



The following is a similar summary of the prin- 

 cipal songs of starlings heard near Stroud : — 



