ROSE-COLOURED STARLING. 



PASSE RES. 



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Pastor roseus (Linnaeus*). 

 THE ROSE-COLOURED STARLING 



Pastor roseus. 



Pastor, Temminck^. — Bill moderate, convex above, straight beneath, com- 

 pressed, the upper mandible notched and slightly decurved. Nostrils basal, 

 lateral, oval, partly closed by a membrane covered with small feathers. Gape 

 angular, and free from bristles. Feathers on the crown pointed and elongated, 

 forming a crest. Wings long, the first primaiy very short, the second and the 

 third nearly equal and the longest. Tail moderate, rectrices straight. Tarsus 

 scutellate in front, covered at the sides by an indistinctly divided plate, forming 

 a sharp ridge behind, ('laws considerably curved. 



The Rose-coloured Starling was first noticed as British 

 by Edwards, who, in 1742, took his representation from 

 a specimen killed at Norwood, and preserved at a coffee- 

 house in Chelsea, where, he says, he " had liberty to draw- 

 it." Soon after he mentioned another which was shot in 

 June 1747 by Mr. Roger North of Rougham in Norfolk. 

 Latham in 17MB announced that a third example, shot at 



* Turdus roseus, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. - 2f>4 (1766). 

 t Manuel d'Ornithologie, p. -'J 1 1815). 



