ROSE-COLOURED PASTOR 



ROSE OUZEL ROSE-COLOURED OUZEL ROSE-COLOURED 



STARLING. 



PLATE XCV. 

 Pastor roseus, FLEMING. SELBY. 



AN irregular visitant to this country, breeding in Wes- 

 tern Asia. 



The nest is located in the holes of trees, and in 

 cavities in old walls or rocks, as also on the ground, 

 numbers of nests being built together. A few straws, sticks, 

 wool, leaves, grasses, roots, mosses, feathers, and such like 

 are the materials, if any, for often the eggs are laid on the 

 bare ground, or in a deep hollow or hole under rocks 

 and stones. 



The eggs are five or six in number, are glossy bluish 

 white, with the like faint tinge of green blue or blue 

 green. 



