I. 
+ COMMON 
STARE, 
DESCRIPTION. 
PLACE AND 
MANNERS. 
Sr As ORE Bs 
Sturnus vulgaris, Liz. Sy. i. p. 290. Ne 1.—Scop. aun. i. N° 189.—Kram. 
El. 362.—Brum. orn. p. 64. N° 229—Hafelg. It. p. 287. N° 47.— 
Mull, Zool. Dan. p. 28.—Georgi. Reife. i. pe 173.—Frifch. pl. 217- 
L’Etourneau, Brif. orn. ii. p. 439. N° 1.—Buf. o//. iii. p. 176. pl. 15.— 
Pl. enl. 75. 
Storno, Oliz. uecel. pl. 18. 
Stare or Starling, Raii Syz. p. 67. A. 1.—Will, ora. p. 196. t. 37.—Br- 
Zool, i. N° 104,.—Albin. i. pl. 40. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Maf- 
HE Starling is a bird fo well known that it needs only a 
fhort defcription. 
The weight of the male is three ounces; that of the female 
rather lefs: length eight inches three quarters. Bill brown or 
yellow: the whole plumage is black, gloffed with blue, purple, 
and copper ; each feather marked at the end with a pale yellow 
fpot: the wing coverts are edged with yellow; the quills and tail 
dufky, the former edged with yellow, the laft with dirty white: 
the legs of a reddifh brown. 
This bird appears to be a general inhabitant throughout the 
old continent, from Sweden * to the Cape of Good Hope. We may 
fuppofe that the general manners agree in all climates; in this 
it affects to build its neft in hollows of rocks, ruinous edifices, 
pigeon-houfes, hollows of trees, but. feldom on the branches, 
except in fome cafes, when I have been informed that it has 
made uie of an old neft of a Thrujh, or other bird, but moft often 
that of the Green Woodpecker ; which in-turn feizes that of a Star- 
ling, when placed in the hollow of atree ; for as both thefe birds 
* Tt is alfo met with in Denmark, Norway, and Iceland. Wifits Rufia about 
the middle of 4pré/, and departs in autumn. Decowve Ruf. voli. p. 102. 
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