ROSE-COLOURED STARLING. 24'3 



PASSERES. STVRNID^F.. 



Pastor roseus (Liungeus*), 

 THE ROSE-COLOURED STARLING. 



Pastor roseus. 



Pastor, Temniinck\. — 'Bi\\ 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 

 angulai', 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. Claws considerably curved. 



The Rose-coloured Starling was first noticed as British 

 by Edwards, who, iu 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 1783 announced that a third example, shot at 



* Tiirdin roseus. Linn:eus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 294 (1766). 

 t Manuel d'Ornithologie, p. 82 (ISl.^i). 



