STARNBERG  , a

village and climatic health resort of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, on the Starnberger See, 16 m. by rail S. from Munich . Pop . (19o5), 3257 . It has an evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, an old castle (now government offices) and a bathing establishment . The Starnberger See (or Wurmsee) is a lake with a length of 12 m., a breadth of 3 m., and covering 23 sq. m . Its greatest depth is about 400 ft . The lake is girdled by hills, studded with attractive villa residences, commanding beautiful and extensive views of the Alps . On the Roseninsel, an island in the lake, remains of lacustrine dwellings have been discovered . The waters abound in fish . In the summer steamboats ply, touching at all the villages lying on the shores . See Ule, Der Wiirmsee in Oberbayern (Leipzig, 190,) . STAR-NOSED MOLE (Condylura cristata), a North American species, the single representative of its genus .

In burrowing habits it resembles the

European mole, but is distinguished from all other members of the family Talpidae by the presence of a ring of tentacles round the nostrils, probably serving as organs of touch .