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RED-WINGED STARLING. 
RED-WING-ED BLACKBIRD. BED-WINGED MAIZE-BIRD. 
MARSH BLACKBIRD. SWAMP BLACKBIRD. CORN-THIEF. 
MAIZE-THIEF. STARLING-. 
Sturnus prcedatorius, 
Icterus phcenicurus, 
Agelaius phcenicurus , 
Lubbock. Wilson. 
Buonaparte. 
SWAINSON AND RlCHARDSON. 
Sturnus —A Starling. 
Prcedatorius — Predatory. 
This handsome bird is an American species, and as abundant 
there, throughout the whole of the northern continent, as 
here it is rare. 
One, a male in nearly adult plumage, was shot near 
Rollesby Broad, twelve miles from Norwich, in Norfolk, in 
the month of June, 1842; and another was said to have 
been seen in company with it at the time. The circumstance 
was recorded by the Rev. Richard Lubbock, in the ‘Zoologist,’ 
volume i, page 317. Another was shot in some reeds at 
Shepherds’ Bush, about three miles from London, on the 
Uxbridge road, in the autumn of 1844. Edwards had 
previously referred to another specimen, likewise shot in the 
neighbourhood of London. 
This Starling migrates southwards, for the most part, as 
winter begins to come on, that is to say, about the 1st. of 
November, and again retraces its way in the spring, com¬ 
mencing its return at the end of March, or even earlier, but 
seldom completing it before the beginning of May. Numerous, 
but small parties, observable at all hours of the day in 
constant succession, travel together. 
Similar in its habits to our English species, the bird 
before us is social and gregarious, and as the shades of 
