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STURNUS PREDATORIUS. 
soou become ai^rceable domestics. One Tvliicli I , 
and kept through the winter, whistled with grca^ j 
clearness and vivacity at two months old. It had ■'*’ 
odd manner of moving its head and neck slowly ft*' 
regularly, and in various directions, when intent 0.^ 
observing any thing, without stirring its body. Th'- 
motion was as slow and regular as that of a suakf’ 
When at night a caudle W'as brought into the room, 
became restless, and evidently dissatisfied, lluttermr 
about the cage, as if seeking to get out ; bixt, when th.^ 
cage was placed on the same table with the candle, ' 
seemed extrx'racly well pleased, fed and drank, , 
shook, and an-anged its plumage, sat as close to m | 
light as possible, and sometimes chanted a few' broke > 
irregular notes in that situation, as I sat writing ® 
reading beside it. I also kept a young female of i 
same nest, dui-ing the greater part of winter, but coi* i 
not observe, in that time, any change in its plumag<‘- 
SUBGENUS III. — JANTTTORNUS. 
52 . ICTFiRUS PHj^yiCEUS,TiAVT). STURNUS rRBDATORlUSf 
wii'®' 
REn-WUiGET) STARLISO. 
WILSON, plate XXX. FIG. I MALE. —FIG. XI, FEMAI*' 
This notorious and celebrated corn thief, the 1"''^ 
reputed plunderer and jiest of our honest and lakof’^^j 
farmers, now presents himself before us, with his 
copartner in iniquity, to receive the chai-acter 
their verv axitive and distinguished services. In 
tigating the nature of these, I shall endeavour to 
strict historical justice to this noted pair; adlicrnV 
the honest injunctions of the poet. 
Nothing extenuate, 
Nor set down aught in malice. 
ket the reader divest himself e<|Uiilly of prejudice) 
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