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Genus PASTOR Temm. 



PASTOR Temminck, Man. d'Orn., I, p. 82 (1815 Type (monotype) 

 P. roseus). 



This monotypic genus differs strikingly from Sturnus in the 

 adult, which has in both sexes a wide crest and much rose-colour, 

 also stronger feet ;, the young bird differs from the adult in. its 

 short crest and lighter coloration. One annual moult. Distribution, 

 that of the single species. 



PASTOR ROSEUS 



4. Pastor roseus (L.) THE ROSE-COLOURED STARLING. 



TURDUS ROSEUS Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 170 (1758 Lapland 



and Switzerland). 



Pastor roseus (Linnaeus), Yarrell, n, p. 243 ; Saunders, p. 229. 



Rose-coloured Starling (Pastor roseus) : $ adult. 



DESCRIPTION. Adult male. Winter. Whole head and extending 

 over upper-mantle and upper-breast black, glossed reddish-purple 

 and tipped pale brown (feathers of crown and nape long and 

 narrow, forming crest) ; mantle, back, rump, breast, flanks, and 

 belly pale rosy-pink, somewhat obscured on under-parts and much 

 so on upper-parts by long pale brown tips of feathers ; inner 

 scapulars partially black-brown, making narrow dark line on 

 each side mantle ; thighs, under and upper tail-coverts black, 

 glossed blue-purple and tipped bumsh-grey ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts brown-black, fringed and tipped white ; tail black, 

 glossed blue-purple and green ; primaries and secondaries, outer 

 webs and tips black glossed blue-purple and green, inner webs 

 brown ; primary, greater, and median coverts glossed blue-purple 

 and green, median with whitish tips ; lesser coverts blacker with 

 longer pinkish-buff tips. This plumage is acquired by complete 



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