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really make no neft, placing only a mere covering of leaves, and 
other dry materials, whereon to lay their eggs, very little cere- 
mony, further than bare poffeffion, is requifite. The eges are 
greenifh afh-colour, five or fix in number: the young birds are 
dufky brown till the firft moult. 
Ge 
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Thefe birds, in the winter feafon, are often feen in company . 
with Redwings and Fieldfares, and frequently in large flocks, con- 
fifting only of their own fpecies; when this is the cafe, they may 
be known at aereat diftance, from their tumultuous and diforderly 
method of flight, different from that of any other bird. 
The chief food of thefe are znfecis and worms ; Buffon aflerts 
their fondnefs for the Rofe Beetle *: but befides thefe, they are 
faid to eat many kinds of grain +, and in fome parts olives, 
grapes, and cherries, giving the laft the preference ; they are alfo 
accufed of fucking the eggs of the Pigeous in Pigeon-houfes : 
hence a general feeder: however I am inclined to think that they 
will give animal food the preference, only taking to vegetable 
nourifhment in cafes of neceffity; for when kept in cages, they 
are contented and pleafed with the feraps of meat of every kind. 
L’Etourneau blanc, Brif. ora.ii. p. 444. A. 
Sturnus albus, A/drov. Av. ii. p. 636. 
White Starling, Will. orn. p. 196. 
Lev. Muf. 
HIS is wholly white: the bill reddifh: and the legs flefh- 
coloured. Two of thefe are in the Leverian Mufeum. 
* Scarabeus auratus, Lin. t+ Buf. oif iii. 184. 
Ba2 - L’Etour- 
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Var. A. 
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