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...common European starling, Sturnus vulgaris, is a black-hued bird with a blue-green iridescence on its glossy plumage. Introduced to the U. S. in 1890 to crowd out sparrows, starlings themselves have become a nuisance in some eastern cities, notably Washington. When they gang up in great flocks, as they often do, they make a dreadful din. But when performing solo, Sturnus vulgaris is one of the most versatile of all bird mimics. It not only imitates the songs of many birds but also reproduces, with uncanny fidelity, the cackle of a laying hen, the tentative chirps of young...
...Bird was an accomplished oarsman who spent considerable time under the tutelage of rowing mentors Harvey Love and Tom Bolles at the Newell Boat House...
Before he came to Harvard, Bird attended the Kingswood School in West Hartford, Connecticut. Last winter he served on a Student Council committee which investigated the problem of how men are admitted to the Houses...
...Although Bird was offered an automobile ride to Chicago, he passed it up in favor of riding the rails. College friends last night said that Bird had made a hobby of traveling this way, and had covered large parts of the South in box cars...
...Tuesday night Bird went to the Boston railroad yards to look the ground over and found that, unlike the South, New England box cars are kept locked; consequently he was forced to ride on top or beneath...