. British birds for cages and aviaries; a hanbook relating to all British birds which may be kept in confinement .. . be grudged them considering theamount of good they do by the destruction of myriads ofthe larvce ofthe daddy-long-legs, so destructive in pastures,where they burrow for several years and feed on the rootsof the grass, which they kill. In the house the Starling is a very amusing pet, learning to talk and sing in awonderfully accurate is easily reared andkept on ants eggs, mag-gots, and scraps of allkinds from the and cinnamonvarieties are not uncom-mon, and wh
. British birds for cages and aviaries; a hanbook relating to all British birds which may be kept in confinement .. . be grudged them considering theamount of good they do by the destruction of myriads ofthe larvce ofthe daddy-long-legs, so destructive in pastures,where they burrow for several years and feed on the rootsof the grass, which they kill. In the house the Starling is a very amusing pet, learning to talk and sing in awonderfully accurate is easily reared andkept on ants eggs, mag-gots, and scraps of allkinds from the and cinnamonvarieties are not uncom-mon, and when foundare valuable, although theprice has declined some-what of late. In a suitableplace they will breed andrear their young, which,however, often turn outto be merely ordinaryspecimens of their kindpossessing not one of thepeculiar characteristics oftheir parents. The nestof the Starling is alwaysplaced in a hole of somekind, and the eggs, whichare blue spotted with black and brown, sometimes verysparingly, are usually four or five in number. There are twobroods in the season, as a rule, but sometimes The Starling THE STINT. See Dunlin {under Sandpipers). FOR CAGES AND A VIARIES. 191 THE STOCK DOVE. See under Doves. THE STONECHAT. This bird closely resembles the Whinchat in form andhabit, but is more brilliantly coloured. The head, neck,chin and upper breast are jet black; the back and wings,brown with a dark centre^ to each feather; the rump, twoof the greater wing-coverts on each side, and a roundpatch on the neck above the bend of the shoulder, arewhite; the tail is dark brown, and the breast deep orange-red getting paler onthe belly and almostdisappearing on thevent and the undertail-coverts; the bill,legs and feet areleaden-grey. All the directionsgiven for preservingthe Whinchat inconfinement areapplicable in thecase of its near rela-tive the Stonechat,which frequents thesame kind of placesas the former, and, like it, comes to us in April, to take its departure
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