Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . formluvs been occasionally caught on herring nets offBritish They are sometimes called Itiusket-fish, Meilusa-headed Starlish, or Argus Starlish. Set Forbes, British Starjiske^ (Lond. 1841); Haniann,Beilrnijc 2ur Histohiiic dfv Kchiiiodcrmni (Jena, 1885);Ludwig, Echinodermata in Bronns Thierreich (in pro-gress), and Morphol(njische Studivn an Echiiiodennen(Lcip. 1877-82); Lyman, Challenijer Report on Ophiur-oidea (; Romanes, Jttly-jish^ Starfish^ andSta-urcliins (Inter. Sc. Series, Lond. 1885). Starsard, the ch
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . formluvs been occasionally caught on herring nets offBritish They are sometimes called Itiusket-fish, Meilusa-headed Starlish, or Argus Starlish. Set Forbes, British Starjiske^ (Lond. 1841); Haniann,Beilrnijc 2ur Histohiiic dfv Kchiiiodcrmni (Jena, 1885);Ludwig, Echinodermata in Bronns Thierreich (in pro-gress), and Morphol(njische Studivn an Echiiiodennen(Lcip. 1877-82); Lyman, Challenijer Report on Ophiur-oidea (; Romanes, Jttly-jish^ Starfish^ andSta-urcliins (Inter. Sc. Series, Lond. 1885). Starsard, the chief town of Further Ionicr-ania, Prussia, on the Ihna, 22 miles bv rail E. byS. of Stettin. Pop. Star Jolly. See Xostoc. Stailill!;, a genus Sturnus, and family Stur-nid;e of Piu^serine birds. The family is a highlycharacteristic Old-World one, extending to everypart of the Eastern continent ami its islands, andeven to Samoa and New Zealand, but wlndly the Australian mainland. The CommonStarling (5. vulgaris) is a beautiful bird, rather. Starling (Sturmts vulgaris). smaller than the song-thrush or mavis, brown,finely glossed with black, w ith rich metallic i)urpleand green reflections, with a buff-coloured tip toeach feather, giving the bird a fine speckled appear-ance, jiarticularly on the breast and shoulders ; inadvanced age it is more uniform in colour. Thefemale is less brilliant than the male, and has theterminal sjiots larger. Both sexes are more speckledin winter tlian in summer. The starling is abund-ant in most parts of Britain, and nowhere moreso than in the Hebrides and Orkneys. It is veiyabundant in nearly every district of England, butis less common in Cornwall ,iiid in A\ales. It isfound in all parts of Europe, extending even toIceland and tireenland. To the Mediterraneanb;isin it is a cold weather visitor in enormous num-bers ; and it is also common in the north of make artless nests of slender twigs, roots,and dry grass (of
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