ROSE-COLOURED PASTOR. 



EOSE OUZEL. ROSE-COLOURED OUZEL. ROSE-COLOURED 

 STARLING. 



Pastor roseits, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Turdus roseus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Pastor A shepherd. Rosens Rose-coloured. 



THIS is a 'first cousin, once removed,' of the Starling, 

 with whom accordingly it keeps up, as will be seen, the 

 intercommunication of relationship, but its position in the 

 society of birds is somewhat anomalous. 



In Europe, it occurs occasionally in Russia, Siberia, Dal- 

 matia, Lapland, Sweden, and Suabia, and regularly visits 

 Spain, Italy, Hungary, and the south of France. It is a 

 native of Asia, and in India seems to be very abundant in 

 the Dukkun, forty or fifty being sometimes killed at a shot 

 out of the vast flocks which almost darken the air. In Africa 

 it is also met with, in Egypt. 



In Yorkshire, two were shot near Bawtry ; one at Skiningrove 

 near Whitby; one at Thorne, out of a flock of three or four; 

 one at Ripley; one at Farnley Hall, near Otley; one near 

 Beverley; one at North Burton; one at Boynton Hall, near 

 Bridlington, in 1829; and one in Cootham Marsh, near 

 Redcar, on the 28th. of August, 1851. 



The following have also been obtained at various times: 

 One at Norwood, Surrey, near London; and one at Ivor 

 Court, Buckinghamshire. In Caermarthenshire, one was shot 

 while eating cherries in a nurserv garden at Swansea, in 

 July, 1836. In Cambridgeshire, one at Haydon House, near 

 Royston. In Suffolk, one at Woodbridge, in July, 1832, one 



