144 AVES INSESSORES. [PASTOR. 



A plentiful and widely dispersed species. Partial to old trees, church 

 steeples, and ruinous buildings, in the holes of which it breeds. Nest 

 formed of dry grass. Eggs four or five in number. In the Autumn, con- 

 gregates in immense flocks. Food insects and worms, occasionally grain. 



GEN. 33. PASTOR, Temm. 



108. P. roseus, Temm. (Rose-coloured Pastor.) 

 Head and neck violet-black, the feathers on the crown 

 elongated, forming a crest : back and belly rose-red. 



P. roseus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. tom.i. p. 136. Rose-coloured Pastor, 

 Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 343. pi. 36. f. 2, 3. Rose-coloured Ouzel, Mont. 

 Orn. Diet. Rose-coloured Starling, Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. 

 p. 110. 



DIMENS. Entire length eight inches six lines: breadth, wings 

 extended, fourteen inches six lines. 



DESCRIPT. {Male.} Head and neck velvet-black, with violet and 

 green reflections ; the feathers on the crown very much elongated, forming 

 a pendent crest : back, rump, breast, and belly, rose-red : wings and tail 

 blackish brown, with violet reflections : under tail-coverts, and thighs, 

 black : upper mandible, and tip of the lower one, yellowish red, the re- 

 maining portion black : irides deep brown : feet yellowish red. (Female.) 

 General colours of the plumage much paler ; the red tinged with brown : 

 the feathers on the crown shorter. (Young of the year.) "No crest: 

 all the upper parts of the body isabella-brown : wings and tail brown, 

 all the feathers fringed with white and ash-colour : throat and middle of 

 the abdomen pure white ; the rest of the under parts cinereous brown : 

 bill yellow at the base, brown at the tip : feet brown." TEMM. (Egg.) 

 Colour unknown. 



Art occasional, but very rare, visitant in this country. Has been ob- 

 served in Sussex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset- 

 shire, Northumberland, Lancashire, and Ireland. Habits similar to those 

 of the Starling. Food insects and their larvae ; also seeds, and occasion- 

 ally cherries. Said to build in the holes of trees and old walls, and to lay 

 six eggs. 



GEN. 34. FREGILUS, Cuv. 



109. Graculus, Selb. (Cornish Chough.) Black: bill 

 and feet coral-red. 



Pyrrhocorax Graculus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 122. Cor- 

 nish Chough, Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 365. pi. 33. Chough, Bew. 

 Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 90. Red-legged Crow, Mont. Orn. Diet. 



DIMENS. Entire length sixteen inches : length of the bill (from the 

 forehead) two inches two lines and a half, (from the gape) two inches two 

 lines and a half; of the tarsus two inches; of the tail five inches seven 

 lines ; from the carpus to the end of the wing ten inches eight lines : 

 breadth, wings extended, two feet eight inches. 



DESCRIPT. The whole plumage black, with purple and green reflec- 

 tions: bill and feet bright coral-red: claws black. (Egg.) Yellowish 

 white, spotted with ash-gray and light brown : long. Sam. one inch 

 eight lines; trans, diam. one inch one line. 



