Starlings ( Sturnus vulgaris) at Providence, R. I.— It may be of 
interest to the readers of ‘The Auk,’ in following the movements of the 
Starling to know they have appeared in Providence, R. I. My business 
requiring my presence in this city for a few weeks, on the morning of 
November 23, I started out with my field glass to see what could be seen 
here m the line of bird life. In passing through Swan Point Cemetery I was 
not a little surprised to encounter a flock of about forty Starlings, many of 
them m full summer plumage; they were constantly in song, many 
times singing notes quite like our Bluebird. I have had other excellent 
observations of them covering a date as late as December 6. 
In the same section on December 1, 1912, I found two Mockingbirds 
but have failed to record them this season.— E. E. Caduc, Boston, Mass. 
Ar«J*.XXXI, /f/y.fi. 2 i/f. 
The European Starling in Connecticut. — December 3, 1900,1 took a 
male Starling (Sturnus vulgaris ) in North Haven, Conn. The bird was 
alone late in the afternoon, and flew from up the river into some trees 
near the edge of the Quinnipiack Marshes. I judged from its actions that 
it was looking for the blackbirds which every autumn roost in large num- 
bers in the rushes near where it was shot, and with which it may have 
associated before they left for the South. Mr. W. H. Hoyt'tells me that 
three Starlings have been taken recently from a flock that is spending the 
winter on Noroton Hill, near Stamford. — Louis B. Bishop, M. D., Netv 
Haven , Conn. Auk, XVIII, April., 1901 , p p- ? 9 V ' $■ 
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