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Definition of Starlings
1. starling [n] - See also: starling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Starlings
Literary usage of Starlings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"Starlings. An Old-World family containing some two hundred species. ... Starlings arc
walkers, not hoppers, and this fact, in connection with the spotted ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1915)
"... Hampshire — Four Starlings were seen at Hanover, NH, on April 17, 1915.
As this is the first time these birds have been seen here, I thought the record ..."
3. A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by William Henry Hudson (1910)
"... loud singing THE subject of starlings associating with sheep has served to
remind me of something I have often thought when listening to their music. ..."
4. Brooks's Readers by Stratton Duluth Brooks (1906)
"MY PET Starlings THE rearing of a nest of starlings is always a difficult ...
In fact, I saw more sunrises during the infancy of those starlings than I ever ..."
5. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1900)
"My Starlings—April. \jf Y starlings! Your singing -^-*- Is in my memory ringing;
With a voice that knew no sadness, With each note a song of gladness, ..."
6. Novels, Poems and Letters of Charles Kingsley by Charles Kingsley (1899)
"Late in the autumn, on still and cloudless evenings, Among the golden reed-beds
I heard the starlings sing — " Ah that sweet March month, when we and our ..."
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