STARLINGS.
The Bee Journal says that the Starlings ar»j iucrensing very fast in some of the out districts, and notably in the Jowar Thames Valley, wbere^ they ara this year to be se» n in very large fl cks in orchards whe ; c they are now found for he first time. They seem to be engaged without ceasing picking up insects, either ion the ground or the tree 0 . One farmer told me hit he owes the salvation of a*large ofop of potatoes to -a flodk' of them suddenly .appearing jnsfc: in the nick of time, when liordes of small green caterpi lars had bog in to direst his not ye full grown pot a . to plants of their leaves I think, too, thfct theie bivds will be move than a rnfttoh for the «pa»row,
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Manawatu Herald, 8 October 1889, Page 2
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135STARLINGS. Manawatu Herald, 8 October 1889, Page 2
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