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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo06amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Fig. 16. Starling, (Summer Plumage). *Starling (Stunius I'ulgaris). This Old World species has been introduced into this country on several oc- casions, l)ut only the last importation appears to have been successful. The birds included in this lot were imported and released in Central Park, under the direc- tion of Eugene Schief- felin of this city. They seem to have left the Park and to have estab- lished themselves in various places in the upper part of the city. A pair have bred for three successive seasons in the roof of this MuseunL S. H. Chubb reports a pair nesting in a church at 122nd st. and Lenox avenue, and they also have nested at looth St. and Riverside Drive. C. B. Isham tells me he has found their nest at Kingsbridge, New York City, and that he repeatedly observed a flock of fifty birds in the same locality during the late summer and fall of 1893 and 1894. To the above statement, which stands as it appeared in the first ( 1894) edition of this List, may be add- ed the further information, ob- tained from Mr. Schieff'elin, that 80 Starlings were released on March 6, 1890, and 40 more on April 25, 1891. So far as I am ■aware the present (1906) boun- dary of the range of this species in America is marked by New Haven, Conn., on the east. Os- sining, N. Y., on the north and Red Bank and Princeton, on the south. It is resident throughout the year, but gathers in flocks, sometimes containing several hundred birds, in the fall, when it wanders, about the country. Its economic status remains to be determined, but from the bird- Fig. 17. Starling, (Winter Plumage).
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