66 BIRDS. PASSERES. Pastou- 



white spot on the breast are ill defined, the plumage beneath inclining more 

 to grey, with a tinge of red. Nest on the ground, among heath. Eggs 4 to 

 6, greenish-white, with brown spots. In the young^ the breast spot is indis- 

 tinct. This species breeds in several places in Scotland. It is not rare in the 

 Pentland Hills, near Edinburgh. Congregates in autumn, before departing 

 for the south. 



Gen. XXVI. PASTOR.— Base of the bill destitute of single 

 stiff hairs. Nostrils, in part, covered with a feathered 

 membrane. 



50. P. roseus. Rose-coloured Ousel. — Head with a crest of 

 feathers. 



Peiin. Brit. Zool. ii. G27. Temm. Orn. i. 136 — An irregular visitant. 

 Length 8 inches. Upper mandible, and the tip of the lower, of a yellowish 

 rose-colour ; the rest black. Feet yellow. Irides brown. Head, neck, and 

 breast black, with a gloss of violet. Belly and back rose coloured. "Wings 

 and tail brown, with a violet gloss. Under tail-covers and thighs, black, with 

 white rays. Head of the female plain, and the colours less bright. Nest in 

 the holes of trees and in walls. Young, above, are of an Isabella brown co- 

 lour. This species visits Britain irregularly. It was first recorded by Mr 

 Edwards, who found it near London, and at Norfolk. Dr Pulteney (Dorset- 

 shire, p. 11.), mentions it as having been found at Long Critchel. Montagu 

 states, that about Ormskirk, at Lancashire, it occurs almost every season. In 

 Scotland, it has occurred in Dunkeld (Stat. Ac. xx. 439), and ]Mr Bullock in- 

 formed me, that he received it from Hoy, in Orkney, Avhere it was shot in the 

 garden of the Reverend INIr Hamilton. I have seen a specimen from Ire- 

 land, in the possession of N. A. Vigors, Esq. Chelsea. 



Gen. XXVII. ORIOLUS. Oriole.— Upper mandible with 

 a ridge. Nostrils naked, opening longitudinally in an ex- 

 tended membranaceous sjjace. 



51. O. Galbula. Golden Oriole. — Plumage of a golden yel- 

 low colour. 



Penn. Brit. Zool. ii. C26. Temm. Orn. i. 129 An in-egular visitant. 



Length 10 inches. Space between the bill and eye, the wings and tail, 

 black ; the ends of the last yellow. Bill and irides red. Feet bluish. The 

 colour 0^ the female inclines to ohve-green on the back ; and grey, with a tinge 

 of yellow beneath, with dusky streaks. Nest suspended from trees. Eggs 

 4 or 5 ; white, with a few solitary spots of brown or black. Young like the 

 female, but the spots beneath more numerous. This bu'd was first recorded 

 by Pennant, as having been killed in South Wales. It has likewise been 

 found in Cornwall. In 1807, two examples were killed in Scotland, the first 

 in the spring, at Loch Ransa, in AiTan, which I saw ; the latter in the begin- 

 ning of winter, at Restalrig, near Edinburgh. Accordhig to jNIr Wood, one 

 was shot, in companv with blackbirds, 2Gth April 1 824, at Aldershot, in Hamp- 

 shire,— Annals of Phil. July 1824, p. 63. 



Gen. XXVIII. CINCLUS. Dipper.— Ridge of the upper 

 mandible slightly concave in front of the nostrils, which 

 are linear. No stiff hairs at the g^pe. 



