. Arctic zoology .. . hiefly on the feeds of grafles; fits on fmalltrees and fluubs j has a jetting motion with its tail; is reckonedexcellent meat; has a mufical but not a various note. Arrives inNeiv Tork in March, or the beginning of April: lays in June, in thegrafs, five white eggs, thinly fpotted with pale ruft-color. Leavesthe country in September or O£iober» SturntM L O 0 I S I A N E S T A R E, ^ 531 Sturnus Ludovicianus, Lin. Syjl. ^Latham, iii. 6. B^j. Lou!s?anr. LEtourneau de la Louifiane, De Buffon, iii. i<jz.~-BriJfon, li. 449.—P/. £«/. 256. T. With a whitifh bill, tipped w
. Arctic zoology .. . hiefly on the feeds of grafles; fits on fmalltrees and fluubs j has a jetting motion with its tail; is reckonedexcellent meat; has a mufical but not a various note. Arrives inNeiv Tork in March, or the beginning of April: lays in June, in thegrafs, five white eggs, thinly fpotted with pale ruft-color. Leavesthe country in September or O£iober» SturntM L O 0 I S I A N E S T A R E, ^ 531 Sturnus Ludovicianus, Lin. Syjl. ^Latham, iii. 6. B^j. Lou!s?anr. LEtourneau de la Louifiane, De Buffon, iii. i<jz.~-BriJfon, li. 449.—P/. £«/. 256. T. With a whitifh bill, tipped with brown: with the crown,backj wings, and tail of a rufty afli-color j the firft markedalong the nniddle with a white line; and another of the fame color-over each eye j inner webs of the four outmoft feathers white: infront of the neck a large black fpot; each feather tipt with grey :reft of the fore part of the negk^, breaft, and belly* of a rich yellow :thighs and vent dirty white. Inhabits Lotdjiana, Placs*. A. Stare, Sr. ZooL 1. N 104. Stare. Sturnus, vulgaris Stare, Faun. SuecH , De Buffont iii. 176.—Latham, iii, 2.—Lev. Mus. CT. With a yellow bill: black body glofled with purple, andfpotted with yellow and white : legs black. Inhabits Europe as high as Salten, in the diocefe of Drontheim, in Norway; and in great numbers in l^ajns Helgeland *, in Feroe^and in Icelandf. They migrate from Norway, a few excepted,■which lodge in the fiflures of the rocky ifle near Siavanger^ atthe fouthern extremity of that kingdom, and come out to bafk inthe funny days of winter. They are found in vaft flocks in allfarts of Ru£ia, and the weft of SiUriai but are very fcarce beyond * LtimSi 194. t Brunnich, 64. U « 2, the 33^ W A T E R O U Z E L* the Jenejei. In many places of England refide the whole year: inothers, migrate after the breeding-feafons by thoufands to othercountries. Water. Ouzel. B. Water Ouzel, jSf. Zrjo/. i. N° iii. • Sturn
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