. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. STURNlDiE. 227. THE STARLING. Sti^rnus vulgaris, Linnaeus. The Starling or Stare, now generally distributed throughout the United Kingdom, has materially increased during the last forty years both as regards numbers and range, in Wales, the west and north of England, and Ireland. In Scotland also, it is now common in many districts in which it was either rare or unknown within the memory of persons hardly past middle-age; in the Shetlands and Orkneys, however, it has been resident for at least a century, and for little less in the Outer Hebrides
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. STURNlDiE. 227. THE STARLING. Sti^rnus vulgaris, Linnaeus. The Starling or Stare, now generally distributed throughout the United Kingdom, has materially increased during the last forty years both as regards numbers and range, in Wales, the west and north of England, and Ireland. In Scotland also, it is now common in many districts in which it was either rare or unknown within the memory of persons hardly past middle-age; in the Shetlands and Orkneys, however, it has been resident for at least a century, and for little less in the Outer Hebrides {Cf. Harvie-Brown, Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 1895, pp. 2-22). Large flocks arrive on our east coasts in autumn, at which season there is also a marked migration west- ward, and localities in the interior of this country which have been frequented during the summer are then almost deserted, while great numbers seek winter quarters in the south and west of Ireland. In the Fseroes, where this species is common and resident, the T 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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