ROSE-COLOURED STARLING. Q7 
neglecta. It frequents pasture-lands, being very rarely found in woods. 
It is celebrated for the sweetness of its song. The nest is domed, and 
always built on the ground. This bird lays four or five eggs, white in 
ground-colour, spotted all over, but principally at the large end, with 
conspicuous reddish-brown blotches ; the underlying spots are generally 
somewhat indistinct, but occasionally they form an important feature in 
the egg and are slate-grey (Plate 11). They vary in length from 1°2 to °95 
inch, and in breadth from ‘9 to ‘68inch. It is said to feed both on insects 
and seeds. The male Meadow-Starling is pale brown, spotted and barred 
with dark brown and reddish brown; the lores, the breast, and belly are 
yellow, with a conspicuous black crescent below the throat. The female is 
slightly duller in colour. 
