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RED-WINGED STARLING. 



RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. RED-WINGED MAIZE-BIRD. 



MARSH BLACKBIRD. SWAMP BLACKBIRD. CORN-THIEF. 



MAIZE-THIEF. STARLING. 



Stnrnus prcedatorius, LUBBOCK. WILSOX. 



Icterus phcKnicurua, BUONAPARTE. 



Agelaius phcenicurus, SWAINSON AND RICHARDSON. 



SturnusA Starling. Pradatorius Predatory. 



THIS handsome bird is an American species, and as abundant 

 there, throughout the whole of the northern continent, as 

 here it is rare. 



One, a male in nearly adult plumage, was shot near 

 Rollesby Broad, twelve miles from Norwich, in Norfolk, in 

 the month of June, 1842; and another was said to have 

 been seen in company with it at the time. The circumstance 

 was recorded by the Rev. Richard Lubbock, in the 'Zoologist,' 

 volume i, page 317. Another was shot in some reeds at 

 Shepherds' Bush, about three miles from London, on the 

 Uxbridge road, in the autumn of 1844. Edwards had 

 previously referred to another specimen, likewise shot in the 

 neighbourhood of London. 



This Starling migrates southwards, for the most part, as 

 winter begins to come on, that is to say, about the 1st. of 

 November, and again retraces its way in the spring, com- 

 mencing its return at the end of March, or even earlier, but 

 seldom completing it before the beginning of May. Numerous, 

 but small parties, observable at all hours of the day in 

 constant succession, travel together. 



Similar in its habits to our English species, the bird 

 before us is social and gregarious, and as the shades of 



