OF BIRDS. 
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the birch tree, they run into fmall holes, and 
keep clofc to the ground. 
They arc efteemed delicate food, and fre¬ 
quently taken in fpringes made of horfe-hair, 
which are fet in fome place where the fnow 
is removed, and chaff is flrewed about. 
Some fay that it has little or no fong, and 
others fay that its fong is delightful. 
Genus 68. STURNUS. 
The STARE. 
The beak is (lender, deprefled, a little blunt, the upper 
mandible very drain 
The nofivils guarded abooe by a prominent rim. 
The tongue hard and cloven. 
The STARLING. 
Its beak is yellowifh, the plumage black, gloffed with 
changeable blue, purple, and copper colour; with white 
or pale yellow' (pots. 
It inhabits both Europe, and Africa; for it is 
a bird of paffage, migrating from one country 
to another, and is found from Sweden, to the 
Cape of Good Hope. 
The Starling breeds in hollow trees, fometimes 
feizing 
