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Genus PASTOR. 
The Rose-coloured Starling was included by Linneus and Brisson in 
the genus Turdus. Scopoli removed it into the genus Sturnus; but in 
1815 Temminck somewhat unnecessarily placed it in a separate genus. 
In the first edition of his ‘ Manuel d’Ornithologie,’ p. 83, he invented the 
genus Pastor, where the Rose-coloured Starling reigns supreme as the 
typical and only species. The characters which distinguish this genus 
from Sturnus are of the most frivolous kind: the upper mandible is not 
quite as straight, the nostrils are rather more concealed by feathers, and 
the head is furnished with a crest. In its habits, food, and nidification the 
Rose-coloured Starling differs very little from the so-called true Starlings. 
The Rose-coloured Starling is confined to the southern portions of the 
South Palearctic Region during the breeding-season ; but in winter wanders 
into the Oriental Region. 
