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PASTOR, ROSE-COLOURED, 



ROSE-COLOURED STARLING. ROSE-COLOURED OUZEL. 



PASTOR ROSEUS, Temm. 



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 

 larvae 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 larvae. Its nest is made in the holes of 

 trees, and in old walls ; and the female lays five 

 or six light blue eggs. 



PETREL, BULWER'S. 



THALASSIDROMA, Gould. 



The following is the account given by Mr* 

 Gould, in his Birds of Europe, of this rare species 



