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Family STURNIILll. 



Genus STURNUS. Linn. 

 Sturnus vulgaris, Linn, 



ii. p. 12, pi. 11 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 27 (1890); 



Seebohm, E</gs of Brit. Birds, p. 230, pi. 54. tig. 13 (1896) ; Dresser. 



Man. Pal. Birds, i. p. 399 (1902); Hey, Eier Vog. Mitteleurop. i. 



p. 349 (1905) ; Jourd. Eggs Europ. Birds, i. p. 34 (1906) ; Dresser, 



Eggs Birds Europe, p. 340, pi. xxiii. figs. 1 & 2 (1908); Sharpe. 



Hand-l. v. p. 512 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 348 (1910). 

 Sturnus varius, Baedeker. Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 50. fig. 12 (1855-63). 

 Sturnus vulgaris vulgaris, Hartert, Vog. 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. They measure from 1'08 to 1-3 in length, 

 and from '8 to *9 in breadth. 



3. Keswick, Cumberland. 

 15. Cambridgeshire. 



5. Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, 23rd 

 May. 



4. Southnry, Norfolk, 28th April. 



5. Southery, 20th May. 



5. Southery, 10th June. 



4. Cookham, Berkshire, April, 

 3. Cookham, April. 



7. Berkshire, 25th April. 



6. Alton, Hants, May. 



5. Bentley, Hants, "25th April (H. 



W. Ingram: Hargitt Coll.}. 

 5. Bentley, 13th May. 



5. Finchley, Middlesex (O. Salving 



6. Stolp, romerania, 1st May (T. 



Holland}, 



5. Stolp, 8th May (T. H.\. 

 5. Stolp, 20th May (T. H.\ 

 5, Leniback, Vorarlberg, Tyrol, 30th 



Ma}-, 



Seebohni Coll. 



F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 



Salvin-Godraan Coll. 



W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.] 

 W. Kadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[PA 



Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohin Coll. 



Seebohni Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll, 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 W. Radcliife Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Sturnus faroensis, Feilden. 



Sturnus vulgaris, Feilden, Zoologist, 1872, p. 3219; Dresser, Egys Bird 

 Europe, p. 340, pi. xxiii. fig. 3 (1908). 



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