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Genus PASTOR, Temminck. 

 EOSE-COLOURED PASTOR. 



Pastor roseus (Linnaeus). 8.N., i., p. 294 (1766). 



Although an accidental or occasional visitor to Kent, 

 the Rose-coloured Pastor has been taken, and also ob- 

 served many times, in the county, but it is doubtful 

 whether it has ever bred here. 



The Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, in 1844, records one 

 specimen in Dr. F. Plomley's collection, which is probably 

 the one now in the Dover Musemn, but like all these 

 specimens without data ; and like those at Canterbury the 

 records are retained by the departed donors, and nothing 

 is done towards even a label with what little is known 

 about them. 



In the Zoologist, 1857, the Rev. C. W. Shepherd wrote, 

 saying : " I have a Rose-coloured Pastor, which was shot 

 at Frindsbury, near Rochester ; it was shot in the sum- 

 mer, in a cherry orchard, out of a flock of Starlings." 

 There is a specimen labelled Kent in the Maidstone 

 Museum, without data, presented by Mr. G. Simmons. 

 Mr. W. Prentis records that one was shot by a labouring 

 man near Maidstone on the Tonbridge Road, in the year 

 1863 ; perhaps this refers to the above example. 



In the Birds of East Kent Mr. G. Dowker says : 

 "Another rare visitor, the Rose-coloured Pastor, was 

 shot by Mr. Hammond at St. Albans, Kent, in 1887, 

 and another specimen had been obtained from Wye." 



Bose-coloured Pastor in Kent. — " I think I may with 



certainty record the occurrence of a Rose-coloured Pastor 



here in January last (1889). It was seen in company 



with some Fieldfares, and from the description given to 



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