Seems like the veil Shakina spread.
Down and down comes memory’s leaf,
Bright with hopes or sere with grief;
The brightest one in life’s huge pile
Is that from which our bonfires smile.
—Cora May Cratty.
STARLING.
(Sturnus vulgaris).
⅔ Life-size.
FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES.
THE STARLING.
(Sturnus vulgaris.)
The Starling belongs to an interesting family of birds, represented in America by but one species and that one only recently introduced. In the Old World, however, there are about two hundred species which are widely distributed throughout Europe, Asia and Africa.