20 "BRITISH BIRDS. 
PASTOR ROSEUS. 
ROSE-COLOURED STARLING. 
(Puate 11.) 
Turdus merula rosea, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 250 (1760). 
Turdus roseus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 294 (1766); et auctorum plurimorum— 
(Scopoli), Latham, Gmelin, (Bonaparte), (Temminck), (Degland § Gerbe) 
(Salvadori), (Newton), (Dresser), &e. 
Sturnus roseus (Linn.), Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 180 (1769). 
Turdus seleucis, Forskal, Descr. Animal. p. vi. no. 16 (1775). 
Sturnus asiaticus, Wirsing fide Lath. Ind. Orn, i, p. 844 (1790). 
Pastor roseus (Linn.), Temm. Man. d’ Orn, p. 83 (1815). 
Psaroides roseus (Linn.), Vierll. Analyse, p. 42 (1816). 
Merula rosea (Linn.), Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. p. 242 (1816). 
Acridotheres roseus (Linn.), Ranz. Elementi di Zoolog. iii. pt. v. p. 177 (1828). 
Gracula rosea (Linn.), Cuv. Regne Anim. i. p. 378 (1829). 
Pastor peguanus, Less. Bélanger’s Voy. Ind. Orient., Zool, p. 268 (1834). 
Pecuarius roseus (Linn.), Temm. Man. @’ Orn, iii. p. 76 (1835). 
Thremmaphilus roseus (Linn.), Macgill. Brit. B. i. p. 613 (1837). 
Nomadites roseus (Linn.), Petenis fide Bonap. Cat. Met. Uc, Eur. p. 44 (1842). 
Although this handsome bird has been often shot in our islands, it can 
only be looked upon as an accidental visitor of frequent occurrence. The 
Rose-coloured Starlings which reach our shores are principally birds of 
the year on their first autumn migration, who have lost their way, and 
have wandered into Western Europe instead of migrating eastwards into 
India. Willughby and Ray were apparently unacquainted with the occa- _ 
sional visits of this bird to our islands, and copy the account given of — 
it by Aldrovandus. ‘The first British-killed example of which we have any 
record was the one described by Edwards in 1743, which was killed at 
Norwood, uear London, and was figured in his ‘ Natural History’ (i. p. 20, 
pl. xx.).. He quaintly tells us that ““we may see this bird very perfect, 
curiously stuffed and set on a perch at Salter’s coffee-house in Chelsea.” 
It is unnecessary to enumerate the many examples that have since wan- 
. dered to our shores. It has occurred in almost every county of England, 
principally in those bordering the east coast ; but examples have repeatedly 
been obtained in the extreme west, in Wales, in Cornwall, and the Scilly 
Isles. In Scotland, although it has not yet been noticed in the outer 
islands, it appears to have occurred in almost every county from Wigtown- 
shire to Sutherland in the west, and from the Orkneys and Shetland to 
Berwickshire in the east. In Ireland the bird, although quite as un- 
certain in its appearance as in England, has nevertheless been met with in 
most parts of the country, even in the extreme western districts. Muller 
