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Family STURNID.^. 



Genus STURNUS, Linn. 



Sturnus vulgaris, Linn, 



Stm-nus VLilg'aria, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xx.tviii. fio-. 1^ a, b 

 (1845-54) ; Hewiison, Eyys of Brit. Birds, i. p. 216, pi. Tv. fig! 1 

 (1856) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 405 (1874) ; Seebahm, Brit. Birds, 

 ii. p. V2, pi. 11 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 27 (1890); 

 Seebohm, Eygs of Brit. Birds, p. 230, pi. 54. (ig. 13 (1896) ; Dresser, 

 Man. PaL Birds, i. p. 399 (1902); Bey, Eier Voy. Uitteleurop. i. 

 p. 349 (1905) ; Jonrd. Eygs Europ. Birds, i. p. 34 (1906) ; Dresser, 

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

 Hand-l. T. p. 512 (1909) ; Nehrh. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 348 (1910). 



Starnus 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. Soutbfiry, Norfolk, 28A April. 



5. Southery, 20th May. 



5. Southery, 10th June. 



4. Cookbam, Berkshire, April, 

 3. Cookham, April. 



7. Berkshire, 25th April. 



6. Alton, Hants, May. 



6. Bentley, Hants, 26tb April [H. 



W. Ingram: Hargitt Coil.). 

 6. Bentley, 'l3th May. 



5. Fincbley, Middlesex (0. Salvin). 



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



Holland). 

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



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



6. Lemback, Vorarlberg, Tyrol, 30th 



Mav, 



Seebohm Coll. 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Qodtaan Coll. 



W. Radcliife Saunders, Esq, 



[P-l 

 W. Kadcliffe Saunders, Esq, 



[P.]. ■ 

 W. RadclifFe Saunders, Esq, 



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 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest, , 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll, 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Cull. 

 W. Radclilte Saunders, Esq, 



[P.]. 



Starnus faroensis, Feilden. 



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

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



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