518 STURNIDJE. 



d'. Crest shorter than tarsus. 

 c". Bare skin on side of head. 



c'". Frontal feathers short and inclined 



backwards. 

 e*. Bare skin of face restricted to a 



patch behind eye STURNORNIS, p. 533. 



/ 4 . Bare skin of face extending both 



below and behind eye GRACULIPICA, p. 5.34. 



d'". Frontal feathers lengthened and erect ACRIDOTHERES, p. 537. 

 d". No bare skin on side of head. 

 e'". Bill shorter than head, culm en 

 curved ; frontal feathers lengthened, 



curly, erect ^ETHIOPSAR, p. 539. 



f". Bill as long as head, culmen straight ; 

 frontal feathers short and inclined 

 backwards STURNOPASTOR, p. 542. 



Genus PASTOR, Temra., 1815. 



The genus Pastor contains one well-known Starling which is 

 found over the greater part of India proper for nine months of the 

 year, absenting itself during the other three for the purpose of 

 breeding in Western Asia and Europe. 



In Pastor the sexes are very closely alike, but the young bird is 

 brown, and streaked on the fore neck, and it takes nearly two years 

 to assume the adult plumage. The bill is rather shorter than the 

 head, slender and curved ; the nasal membrane is plumed ; the 

 head is fully crested with pointed feathers of great length ; the 

 wing is extremely long and pointed ; the tail short and square. 

 The plumage is very handsome and differs in colour in the summer 

 and winter, the tips which adorn the feathers in the latter season 

 dropping off in the former. 



528. Pastor roseus. The Hose-coloured Starling. 



Turdus roseus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 294 (1766). 



Pastor roseus (LwnJ, Blyth, Cat. p. Ill ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. ii, p. 539 ; 

 Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 333 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 331 ; Hume, S. F. i, 

 p. 208; Ball, S. F. Hi, p. 208; Scully, S. F. iv, p. 164; Hume, 

 Cat. no. 690 ; Doig, S. F. viii, p. 374 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl p. 673 ; 

 Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 257 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 63 ; Oatcs 

 in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. i, p. 368. 



GolaU maina, Hind, in the North ; Tilyer, Hind, in the South ; 

 Pariki-pitta, Palisa, Tel. ; Sura kuravi, Tarn. ; By a in Sind. 



Coloration. The adult in summer has the whole head, crest, neck, 

 chin, throat and upper breast, wings and tail glossy black; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries black, edged with white ; thighs, a patch 

 on each flank, and the under tail-coverts black tipped with white ; 

 remainder of the plumage rose-colour. 



After the autumn moult and throughout the winter the black 

 feathers of the head, throat, and neck are tipped with buff. These 

 tips are cast at the end of winter, or get worn off. 



The sexes are very similar, but the female is perhaps slightly 

 paler, with a shorter crest. 



