98 BRITISH BIRDS. 



THE STARLING.* 



STARE. 



(Sturnus vulgar is ) Linn. E tour n can vulgairc, 

 Temm.) 



LENGTH somewhat less than nine inches. The 

 is straight, sharp-pointed, and of a yellowish 

 brown; in old birds deep yellow; the nostrils are 

 surrounded by a prominent rim ; the eyes are 

 brown : the whole plumage dark, glossed with 



* From the striking similarity, both in form and manners, ob- 

 servable in the Starling, and those more immediately preceding, we 

 had no scruple, in former editions of this work, in removing it from 

 the usual place in the old passerine order, to the Pies, as it evidently 

 forms a connecting link between them, and in a variety of points 

 seems equally allied to both. 



