14 STARE. 



Young birds are grey brown, and deeper in colour than in the 

 Common Starling; but till after the first moult, some small whitish 

 spots appear at the tips of the feathers, which disappear as spring 

 comes on. 



Inhabits Sardinia, where it is stationary, not being found at any 

 distance therefrom, and never mixes with the Common sort, although 

 the latter is in plenty there, changing its place, and emigrating in 

 flocks, as in other countries ; chiefly found among the rocks, in the 

 clefts of which it makes the nest ; is rather a tame species, sometimes 

 approaching habitations, and perching on the tops of them. M. 

 Temminck considers this as a distinct Species, the account and the 

 manners of which were furnished by M. le Chevalier de la Marmora- 



