ON the evening of the 24th inst. my attention was attracted by an interesting example of mimicry in the case of the starling. The first thing which attracted my attention was hearing the cry of a blackbird in distress, and on looking round, the only bird to be seen was a solitary starling, which, when I first observed it, was uttering its own note; but almost immediately thereafter it began to whistle loudly in imitation of the blackbird. After this, for the space of about half an hour, it kept up a constant succession of notes in mimicry of the chaffinch and sparrow, always, however, using its own note for the space of about half a minute between each change. I may add that it did not seem to have any particular order in which it repeated the various notes.