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. 
