PASTOR, ROSE-COLOURED. 
RosE-COLOURED STARLING. ROSE-COLOURED OUZEL. 
Pastor ROSEUS, Zemm. 
This beautiful bird is a native of the warmer 
parts of Asia and Africa, where it is common. It 
migrates at regular periodical intervals into the 
south of Europe, visiting in this way Italy, Spain, 
and the southern provinces of France, and some- 
times straggling into this country, where it has 
been repeatedly obtained, as also in a few instances 
in Scotland. It lives and feeds with the Starling, 
and perching on the backs of cattle, extracts the 
larvee of cestri, a species of parasitical insect which 
breeds upon them. In the search after these it 
displays great assiduity, and is on that account not 
only highly esteemed, but carefully protected by the 
inhabitants of the countries it frequents, who derive 
great benefit from its destruction of numbers of 
injurious larve. Its nest is made in the holes of 
trees, and in old walls; and the female lays five 
or six light blue eggs. 
Pa eB OW ey Ss: 
THALASSIDROMA, Gould. 
The following is the account given by Mr. 
Gould, in his Birds of Europe, of this rare species 
