. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. THE COMMON STAiaJNO. 433 1,V a person who Imd slightly wounded it and afterwards tended it until it had recovered was so gofxl a luiiiuc that an excellent judge of songsters, who had heard its voice without siH'ing th(^ bird iroin which it proceeded, thought that he was listening to a concert of two stiirlings, two goldfinc^hos, and some songster, probably a siskin. This bird was fed upon insects and harley-nieal moistened with milk. It is a remarkably pretty and conspicuous bird; the beautiful
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. THE COMMON STAiaJNO. 433 1,V a person who Imd slightly wounded it and afterwards tended it until it had recovered was so gofxl a luiiiuc that an excellent judge of songsters, who had heard its voice without siH'ing th(^ bird iroin which it proceeded, thought that he was listening to a concert of two stiirlings, two goldfinc^hos, and some songster, probably a siskin. This bird was fed upon insects and harley-nieal moistened with milk. It is a remarkably pretty and conspicuous bird; the beautiful crest which decorates the crown mid the delicate tints of the plumage rendering it easily distinguishable from any if its kin. The head is orna- nit'iitod with a crest of long flow- ing leathers, which are of a jetty hliick glossed with violet; and the neck, wings, and tail are of the same luie. The chin, throat, front of th(f neek, thighs, and under tail-coverts are also black, but without the blue gloss, The hack, scajmlaries, breast, sides, and alnlomen are of a beautiful rose-pink ; the legs and toes are yelidwish brown, and the beak yellow with a dash of rose. The total length of this species is between eight and nine inches. The bird does nut attain this beautiful jilumagc until the third year; in the year tiiere is no crest at all, and the ]ilumage is simply coloured with (lilloreut shades of brown and white ; in the second year the crest is com- parativ(^ly small and scanty, the (lark parts of the jiHimage have a lirown tinge, and the rosy parts are dull and washed with grey or brown. Thk common 8tari,in(} is one of the handsomest of our British birds, the bright mottlings of its Jilumagc, the vivacity of its move- ments, and the elegance of its form, rendering it a truly beauti- ful liird. It is very common in all parts of the Jiritish Isles, as well as in many other countries, and assembles in vast Hocks of many thousands in number, enormous accessions being m
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