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Show Bird on Trial For Its Life. It is reported that the English starling, star-ling, a harmless, grub-eating bird when imported to this country in 1890, has become predatory in its habits and is rapidly driving out the native songsters, song-sters, in addition to eating all fruits. So general have become the complaints com-plaints that the department of agriculture agri-culture at Washington has sent an expert ex-pert investigator to this place to begin be-gin a study of the bird with a view to exoneration or extermination. The starling has prospered, until today to-day he nearly doubles in number any native bird in Connecticut or Rhode Island and is routing the native birds from their resting and feeding placas. |