158 SARDINIAN STARLING. 



Small had the bird in the flesh, and preserved the 

 skin himself. He says the female was also obtained a 

 short time after, but forty miles distant from where the 

 male was killed. Mr. Small is a well-known naturalist, 

 and I have not the slightest doubt that the statement 

 is in every point correct; but as I am not aware that 

 this bird, which is distinguished by the two long 

 processes at the end of the outer tail quills, has ever 

 been observed in Europe, and as there is a possibility 

 of the two birds having escaped from confinement, I 

 do not feel justified in introducing it into this work. 

 I notice it here as its place would have been that 

 preceding the bird I have just described. 



