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Breeding Range: The Balkan peninsula, delta of the Danube. (Also 

 Asia Minor, Cyprus, Persia, etc.) 



In the Danube valley and the Dobrudscha this race is plentiful. 

 Tschusi and Reiser have recently described the birds from Greece (Thessaly, 

 perhaps also S. Macedonia) under the name of 8. vulgaris graecus Tsch. & Reis. 

 (Om. Jahrh. 1905, p. 141). 



Eggs taken in Turkey are not distinguishable from those of the 

 typical race. Reiser gives the usual measurements as 28.8 X 21.2 mm. 

 (Bulgaria). Weight 440 mg. 



e. Crimean Starling, Stiu'nus vulgaris taiu-ieus Bnturl. 



Breeding Range: The Crimea. 



Recently described by Buturlin as a distinct species, but more probably 

 only a local race of S. vulgaris. Irby and Blakiston describe it as common 

 in the Crimea, arriving in mid March, and breeding in holes of cliffs and 

 nesting boxes about the middle of April. 



(Buturlin also describes the race inhabiting the district between 

 the Ural and the middle Wolga under the name of S. vulgaris jitkowi, 

 and considers the N. Caucasus birds to be a new race of S. poltorat^kyi 

 {S. p. satunini But.), but Hartert (in litt.) doubts the distinctness of the 

 latter form.) 



\^8. V. poUaratskyi Finsch inhabits Siberia as far as the Baikal Lake 

 and also occurs in Cyprus, while S. v. granti Hart, is the resident Starling 

 of the Azores.] 



14. Sardinian or Spotless Starling, Sturnus unicolor Tenmi. 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl., Tab. XXXVIII, fig. 2, a— b. Baedeker, 

 Tab. 50, fig. 13. 



Foreign Names: Italy: Storno nero. Marocco: Zarzor kdlial. Por- 

 tugal: Estorninho preto. Sardinia: Sturru nieddu, Sturru nern. Spain: 

 Tordo, Tordo serrano. Tunis: Sarsour. 



Sturnus unicolor Temm. Dresser, Birds of Europe, IV, p. 415; Man. 

 of Pal. Birds, p. 401. Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 46. 



Breeding Range: The Iberian peninsula, Sardinia, Sicily and the 

 Balearic Isles. [Also in N. Africa from Marocco to Tunis.] 



In many towns of southern Spain this species is as familiar as 8. vulgaris 

 at home, but it is somewhat local in its distribution and is not common 

 near Gibraltar. North of the Straits of Gibraltar it is as a rule only a 

 summer visitor, but Tait records it as resident in Portugal and very common 

 inland, but not numerous near Oporto. In Sardinia it is very plentiful, and 

 breeds in the mountains of Sicily. It is omitted from the lists of Wharton, 



