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A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.

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A structure of pilings that protects the piers of a bridge.

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A California fish, the rock trout, Hexagrammos, especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus, the boregat or bodieron.

They include, however, the snipe and military starling, which on account of its scarlet breast is locally known as the robin.

The English starling is stated to be the only European bird to have thoroughly established itself in the colony.

There is a little bird, the size of a starling, with brown back striped with black, and white breast, which the Indians call yncahualpa; it utters a monotonous sound at each hour of the night.

Starling does not accept this view, and cannot regard as an article of faith Heidenhain's dictum that normally filtration plays no part in the formation of lymph.

Reunion possessed the peculiar starling, Fregilupus.

This young starling hopped out happily, looking fearless.

Did you know that Mozart had a pet starling?

It's coming home from work and finding an adult starling in your living room I don't like.

In at least one instance the word has been confounded with one of the old forms of the modern Starling.

And, too, the starling is suffering some inexplicable diminution in populace over the whole extent of our nation.

Mozart composed this divertimento, or sextet for strings and two horns, eight days after his pet starling dies.

En route I saw house sparrows, starling, redbreast & rabbits.

Marshall's Pen also holds the rather ignominious distinction of being perhaps the easiest place in the Caribbean to see Common Starling!

The Rose- colored Starling, albeit in nondescript juvenile plumage, gave excellent views feeding among the cows.

Ironically, a real rarity was a Common Starling!

Cape Glossy starling Lamprotornis nitens The most commonly seen glossy starling in most of Namibia.

I am now pursuing a DPhil under the guidance of Dr. Ben Sheldon, studying parental investment in the European starling.

A young starling begs to be fed by the adult on the insect treat fat block.

Barry Starling won two games for Cromer to prevent a complete whitewash.

Among the smaller birds may be enumerated finches, the siskin, bullfinch, pipit, titmouse, wagtail, lark, fine-crested wren, hedge-sparrow, corn-wren, nut-hatch, starling, swallow, martin, swift, thrush, butcher bird, shrike, dipper, yellow-hammer, ortolan and a warbler (Accentor alpinus).

As a part of these discoveries has arisen another but kindred doctrine that of hormones (Starling), juices prepared, not for excretion, not even for partial excretion, but for the fulfilment of physiological equilibrium.

No bird is more popular with natives than the mama (Acridotheres tristis), a member of the starling family, which lives contentedly in a cage, and can be taught to pronounce words, especially the name of the god Rama.

Ironically, a real rarity was a Common Starling !

Cape Glossy Starling Lamprotornis nitens The most commonly seen glossy starling in most of Namibia.

It 's coming home from work and finding an adult starling in your living room I do n't like.

Her arms and hands formed a starling contrast to the remainder of the ensemble...

No native passerine have been recorded, but redpoll Acanthis flammea and common starling Sturnus vulgaris are both widespread and common.

The estimated number of birds in the starling flock is 10,000, Some flock !

Good sorts are Argyll, Bonfire, Black Watch, Cormorant, Cameron, Eden, Fusilier, Nightingale, Royal Scot, Starling, Scarlet Queen, Wren.

Silence of the Lambs (1991) - FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) seeks out the help of serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to help her nab another serial killer.

It is known that several, perhaps very many, if not all glands have also the power of secreting substances to which Starling has given the name of "hormones."

The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is naturalized in New Zealand, Australia and to some extent in the United States.

Heidenhain recognizes two classes, first, such substances as peptone, leech extract and crayfish extract; and, secondly, crystalloids such as sugar, salt, &c. Starling sees no reason to believe that members of either class act otherwise than by increasing the pressure in the capillaries or by injuring the endothelial wall.

His results, so far, have been confirmed by Starling, who finds that the amount of lymph-flow from the thoracic duct is dependent upon difference in pressure.

Other institutions of learning are the Capital University and Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary (Theological Seminary opened in 1830; college opened as an academy in 1850), with buildings just east of the city limits; Starling Ohio Medical College, a law school, a dental school and an art institute.