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me, the observer being very near the bird, I have not 

 a doubt as to its identity ; the rose colour was con- 

 spicuous, but the black on the head and wings was less 

 so ; the breast was described to nie as " a most beautiful 

 rose," and the " head above the eye dark." The bird was 

 also described as smaller than the Fieldfares with which 

 it was feeding. About mid-summer, 1888, a young Pastor, 

 with the immature grey-brown plumage of the first year, 

 was killed at Godmersham, some six or seven miles from 

 Canterbury, and was at first taken for a Starling, but 

 subsequently identified by Mr. Gordon, of the Dover 

 Museum, who set it up. I saw this bird, and it was 

 most certainly a Pastor. The occurrence of these two 

 birds in comparatively the same neighbourhood in the 

 same year, one quite immature, the other having passed 

 the autumn moult, seems to point to their having been 

 bred in the locality ; at least this would be a reasonable 

 surmise if the rose feathers appear after the first autumn 

 moult. Some years ago I obtained a fine specimen of the 

 mature Pastor in very nearly the same neighbourhood ; 

 it was shot in a garden while eating cherries." — W. 

 Oxenden Hammond, Wingham, Kent {Zoologist, 1889, 

 p. 184). 



In the Zoologist, 1901, Mr. L. A. Curtis Edwards 

 records : " A fine adult male Rose-coloured Pastor was 

 obtained on May 14 last (1901), near Appledore, in 

 Romney Marsh, Kent. It was sent for preservation to 

 Mr. G. Bristow, to whose kindness I am indebted for 

 the privilege of examining the specimen in the flesh." 

 It was reported that a Eose-coloured Pastor was seen 

 about the first week in April, 1906, not far from Ham 

 Street, Orlestone. 



