. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . ecially with beef steak starlings go well. When jungling duringwinter, and beefsteaks and the dry, stringy moorghi is not obtainable, theusual method is, when you have brought down a dozen starlings, and got ahare or two, to pluck and nicely clean the starlings, and inside each put somepate de fois gras, and if at hand a thin slice of ham or bacon, then add thehare cut up into quarters, anything in the way of truflies or mushrooms, orin their absence hard-boi
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . ecially with beef steak starlings go well. When jungling duringwinter, and beefsteaks and the dry, stringy moorghi is not obtainable, theusual method is, when you have brought down a dozen starlings, and got ahare or two, to pluck and nicely clean the starlings, and inside each put somepate de fois gras, and if at hand a thin slice of ham or bacon, then add thehare cut up into quarters, anything in the way of truflies or mushrooms, orin their absence hard-boiled eggs, condiments and sauces, and you will findthat with a good crust over the whole, and properly baked, starlings are not tobe despised. vVhere good flour is not obtainable, the above method will affordan excellent stew. Sub-Family .-STURNIN^. Bill with the sides compressed, tip rather blunt and flattened ; wings longand pointed ; tail rather short; tarsi strong, scutate in front; toes long andstrong. STURMS. 13 Gen. Sturnns.—^?>/i;. Bill sharp, straight, and \vitli a conical groove; nostrils feathered; 2ndquill Sturnus vulgaris, 14. Sturnus vulgaris, {Lin.), Gould, B. Eur. pi. 210; p. E. 76; ^aum. vogt. t. 62; Jerd., B, Lid. ii. p. 32 I, No. 681 ; Murray, Vert. Zoo!,Sind, p. 178 ; id., Zool. Bel. and Afgh.; Jl/urraj, Avif, Brit. L/id. ii, p. 363,No. 907.—The Common Starling. Head, neck, nape, chin, throat, breast and back black, glossed with purple,bronze, and green in different lights, the latter predominating on the head andneck, each feather tipped with a small brownish white triangular or roundspot, which, in very old birds, wear out on the head and neck chiefly. Greaterand lesser wing coverts dusky, edged with pale reddish brown ; primaries,secondaries and tertiaries also dusky, their outer webs glossed green, marginedwith light reddish brown ; tail short, dusky, their outer webs more or lessglossed with green and edged with pale reddish brown or buf
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