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OUR starlings here, which are a numerous and accomplished colony, have acquired the following notes of other birds:—Curlew, red-shank, blackbird, thrush, magpie, swallow, swift, chaffinch, house sparrow, hedge sparrow. The most successful imitations are those of the curlew, red-shank (the note uttered by the latter on taking wing), and the swallow. I have several times this year been certain that I heard a swallow twittering on the house-top, and found that the note proceeded from a starling.
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S., H. Letter to the Editors. Nature 17, 507 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017507b0
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