STURNID®. 
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Family STURNID. 
Genus STURNUS, Linn. 
Sturnus vulgaris, Zinn. 
Sturnus vulgaris, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxxviii. fig. 1, a, b 
(1845-54); Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 216, pl. Iv. fig. 1 
(1856) ; Dresser, Birds Iw. iv. p. 405 (1874) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, 
ii. p. 12, pl. 11 (1884); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 27 (1890); 
Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 250, pl. 54. tig. 13 (1896) ; Dresser, 
Man. Pal. Birds, i. p. 399 (1902); Rey, Eier Voy. Mitteleurop. i. 
p- 349 (1905) ; Jowrd. Lggs Europ. Burds, i, p. 34 (1906); Dresser, 
Eggs Birds Europe, p, 340, pl. xxiii. figs. 1 & 2 (1908); Sharpe, 
Hand-i. y. p. 512 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. Liersamml. p. 348 (1910). 
Sturnus varius, Baedeker. Lier Eur. Vog. tab. 50. fig. 12 (1855-63). 
Sturnus vulgaris vulgaris, Harteri, Voy. 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. 
and from -8 to ‘9 in breadth. 
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Keswick, Cumberland. 
Cambridgeshire. 
Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, 23rd 
May. 
Southery, Norfolk, 28th Apvril. 
Southery, 20th May. 
Southery, 10th June. 
Cookham, Berkshire, April. 
Cookham, April. 
Berkshire, 25th April. 
Alton, Hants, May. 
Bentley, Hants, 25th April (ZZ. 
W. Ingram: Hargitt Coii.). 
Bentley, 13th May. 
Finchley, Middlesex (O. Selvin). 
Stolp, Pomerania, lst May (T. 
Holland). 
Stolp, 8th May (7. H.). 
Stolp, 20th May (7. 2). 
Lemback, #orarlbere, Tyrol, 30th 
May. 
They measure from 1-08 to 1-3 in length, 
Seebohm Coll. 
F, Bond, Esq. [P.]. 
Salvin-Godman Cell. 
W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
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W. Bie Saunders, Esq. 
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Gould Coll. 
Gould Coll. 
Gould Coll. 
Crowley Bequest. 
Seebohm Coll. 
Seebohm Coll. 
Salvin-Godman Coll, 
Seebohm Coll. 
Seebohm Coil. 
Seebohm Coll. 
W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
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Sturnus faroensis, Feilden. 
Sturnus vulgaris, Felden, Zoologist, 1872, p. 3219; Dresser, Egys Bird 
Europe, p. 340, pl. xxiii. fig. 3 (1908). 
PAAR, 
