. Birds: the elements of ornithology . il, or lD\&\iw&(JMotacilla luguhris), is a type ofan almost exclusively Old-World group of Birds —Wagtails orPipits—consisting of about sixty-four species, one section of which is very like our Wagtail, while another resembles ourMeadow Pipit (AntTvug prdtensis), which is to be seen on com-mons and waste grounds all the year round. The Common Starling (Stumus vulgaris), with which ahnostall our readers must be familiar, is a convenient example of 112 BtBMBNTS OP OBNITHOLO&Y. another group of Birds containing about thirty-five species,which are exclus
. Birds: the elements of ornithology . il, or lD\&\iw&(JMotacilla luguhris), is a type ofan almost exclusively Old-World group of Birds —Wagtails orPipits—consisting of about sixty-four species, one section of which is very like our Wagtail, while another resembles ourMeadow Pipit (AntTvug prdtensis), which is to be seen on com-mons and waste grounds all the year round. The Common Starling (Stumus vulgaris), with which ahnostall our readers must be familiar, is a convenient example of 112 BtBMBNTS OP OBNITHOLO&Y. another group of Birds containing about thirty-five species,which are exclusively Old-World in distribution. One of themis the Eose-coloured Starling or Pastor (Pastor roseus), whichhas been often shot in England, though it can only be regardedas one of the accidental visitors to our shores, whereof it is oneof the handsomest. Starlings may often be seen perched onthe backs of sheep or oxen, which they benefit by extractingfrom them ticks and other parasitic pests. Another species of Fig. The Pastor (). Bird, however, called the Beef-eater or Oxpecker {Buphagaerythrorhycha), found in South Africa, similarly perches on thebacks of cattle for parasites, especially the grubs, or larvae, ofa fly {(Estrus). In extracting these, however, it is apt to pro-duce bad sores. There are two species of this genus. A Bird is often to be seen in our Zoological Gardens whichis pretty sure to attract attention by the eye or the ear,or by both. It attracts the eye by its conspicuous bright nfTBODTTCTION, 1^3 yellow wattles which project from its head, which, with thebody, is of a fine velvety black. It attracts the ear not onlyby its very loud note, but frequently by the sentences it articu-lates, for it can be easily taught to speak. This is the Grackleor Myna of India (Eulabes religiosa, fig. 122). There are atleast five species of the genus, and it is the type of a family-groupof Birds of about ninety-three different kinds, all of which are Fig.
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