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Title: Birds of Great Britain and Ireland
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925 Grld, H. (Henrik), 1858-1940 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Passeriformes -- Great Britain Passeriformes -- Ireland Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Ireland
Publisher: Hull London : Brumby & Clarke
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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- largefeeders; they are, therefore, unsuitable for caged pets, unless considerable attentioncan be paid to them by their owners : in themselves, however, they are cleanly,being exceedingly fond of bathing. The songs of Starlings are either altogether, or partly, harsh iu character;iu which respect aud in their powers of mimicry, they somewhat resemble theirallies the Crows. Like the latter also they soon become tame and confiding iucaptivity; in which respect they widely differ from some of the Ictcridcc whichnever seem to get the least bit tamer after j^ears of confinement iu an aviary,
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Staf^mnt, 9 -f. I Thk vStarling 139 and always remain nervous in a cage ; the species of the genus Ictcyus, however,are marvellously tame birds. In one respect, in addition to their general outline,the true Starlings resemble the so-called Meadow-Starlings; they are verygregarious. In their nidification the Stuiiiidcc as a rule differ both from the Icki tdcc andCoivida; building their nests of all kinds of rubbish, in holes or crevices oftrees, banks, rocks, walls, or buildings : their eggs are uniform in colouring andusually greenish-blue ; but both in the Stuniidcc and Icicrida there are exceptionsto this broad distinction. No birds are so easy to capture as Starlings, nets and traps awaken no suspicionof danger in their unreflecting brains ; they see food, and rush in helter-skelterto secure it; so that a small trap will sometimes secure from three to five atone fall. Fawily—STURNW.-E. The Starling. Sfitniiis vulgaris, LiNN. GENERALLY distributed over the greater part of Europe,

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