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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
[Family — Icteridce. 
Genu s — Agelceus. 
AgelcBus pkceniceus. Red- winged Starling. 
VV. Jesse wrote in the "Zoologist'^ of 1865, that a 
male specimen was seen at Liphook for about a fortnight 
in May of that year. But we do not consider the evidence 
sufficient to admit the species as a genuine visitor to the 
county.] 
F AM I LY — Sturnidce. 
Genus — Sturnus. 
89. Sturnus vulgaris. Starling. 
An abundant resident in all parts. 
Hadfield wrote to the "Zoologist" in 1889 that the 
starling was rarely met with in the Undercliff sixty years 
previously. Bury, writing in Adams' " History of the Isle 
of Wight," about the year 1856, says that sixty years before 
he wrote it was unknown in the island, and adds that 
" several persons have testified to it being a rare bird 
thirty years back." 
Mr. O. V. Aplin, writing in 1886, says that "a middle- 
aged resident told him that his father remembered a time 
when there was not one in the island." A similar increase 
of range is recorded by the author of the Birds of 
Devon." 
