8 STITRNID^E. 



Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax. CHOUGH. 



Upupa pyrrhocorax Linnaus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 118 : 

 Coasts of England. 



Graculus graculus (Linn.) ; Sliarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. 1877, 



p. 146. 

 Pyrrhocorax graculus (Linn.) ; B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 66 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 231. 



Distribution in the British Islands. Resident on the south- 

 west coast of England ; locally in the coast-districts of 

 Wales, the Isle of Man, the south-west of Scotland and its 

 islands, and in Ireland. A rare visitor elsewhere. 



General Distribution. Resident in western and southern 

 Europe from the Channel Islands and the north-west coast 

 of France to Greece, and in Switzerland. It occurs occasion- 

 ally in the Bavarian and Austrian Alps, and is also resident 

 in Asia Minor, Syria, the mountains of central and northern 

 Asia, eastwards to China, southwards to the Himalaya ; also 

 in Abyssinia, north-west Africa, and some of the islands of 

 the Canary group. 



Family STURNID.E. 



Genus STURNUS Linmeus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 167. 

 Type : S. vulgaris Linn. 



Sturnus, the name in Pliny, perhaps akin to i/-a/o, strix, turdus, trissure = 

 to twitter (Vani9ek). The derivation from stella = a star, is clearly fanciful ; 

 " Starling " is merely the diminutive of " stare," German " Staar," from the 

 same root as sturnus. 



Sturnus vulgaris. STARLING. 



Sturnus vulgaris Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 167 : 



Sweden. 



Sturnus vulgaris Linn.; B. O. 17. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 65; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. 1890, p. 27; Satinders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 227- 

 Vnlgaris = common. 

 Distribution in the British Islands. Resident, generally 



