Passeres 85 



Family STURNID^B, or Starlings 



It is difficult to believe that the Starling (Sturnus 

 vulgaris), which i$ now so abundant from Shetland to 



Starling- 

 Cornwall, was hardly known north of the Scottish 

 Border at the beginning of last century. The increase 

 of late years has been enormous, and it is now no 



