ROSE-COLOURED PASTOR. 



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occurred in summer, in various parts of Ireland. North of 

 London, a specimen was shot on the 15th of August 1830, 

 at Haydon House, a few miles from Royston. Mr. Hoy 

 has recorded a notice of one at Woodbridge in July 1832. 

 On the 10th of July 1838, a fine specimen was shot by one 

 of the gamekeepers of the Rev. J. Holmes, of Brooke Hall, 

 Norwich. This gentleman very obligingly sent the bird to 

 London, for my use in this work, and the figure at the head 

 of this subject was drawn from that specimen. The Rose 

 Pastor has also been obtained in the same county more than 

 once besides, as recorded by Messrs. Paget, and Mr. J. D. 

 Salmon. This species has been obtained in Lincolnshire, 

 Yorkshire, Durham, and Northumberland. The museum 

 at Newcastle contains one, if not more, British-killed speci- 

 men. Mr. Selby mentions that a small flock were seen in 

 company with Starlings, near Bamborough Castle, in July 

 1818 ; and two other birds have been killed within a compa- 

 ratively short period, and both near Alnwick ; one of which 

 is now in the collection of the Rev. Oswald Head, of Howick 

 Rectory, the other belongs to Mr. Moffatt, one of the game- 

 keepers of Earl Grey, at Howick, as communicated to me 

 by Mr. Hutchinson, of Durham. Dr. Fleming has noticed 

 one that was killed at Dunkeld. Thomas Macpherson 

 Grant, Esq. of Edinburgh, has in his collection one shot in a 

 garden in Forfarshire, on the 29tli of September, 1831 ; and 

 Mr. Bullock had a female that was taken at Hoy in Orkney. 

 This bird, like our Starling, has an extended geographical 

 range. It is found, though rarely, in Sweden ; and is said to 

 have been obtained in Lapland. It is found in Russia and 

 Siberia ; and I have seen skins from four very widely sepa- 

 rated localities in India. Colonel Sykes, in his Catalogue of 

 the Birds of the Dukhun, says, " These birds darken the air 

 by their numbers, at the period of the ripening of the bread 

 grains, Andropogon sorghmn, and Paniciim spicatum, in 

 Dukhun, in December. Forty or fifty have been killed at a 



