50 TIE Rul SER 
52. 
+ ROSE-CO- 
LOURED THR, Turdus rofeus, Liz. Sy. i. p. 294. N° 15.—Faun. Sute. 219.—Nov. Com, 
Ac. Petrop. xv. p. 478. t.23. f. 1 
Sturnus rofeus, Scop. azn. i. p. 130. N° 191. 
Turdus Seleucis, Faun Arab. p. vi. a—p. 5. N°16. 
Le Merle couleur de Rofe, Bri/. orn. li. p. 250. N° 20,—Buf. cif. ili. p. 348. 
pl. z22.—PI. exl. 251. 
Merula Rofea, Razz Syx. p. 67. Q» 
Rofe or carnation-coloured Ouzel, Wil. ora. p. 194.—Edw. pl. 20.— 
Zr. Zool. App. N° 5. pl. 5.—Ara&. Zool. 
Lev. Muf. 
DuscripTion.. IZE of a Starling: length near eight inches. Bull three: 
quarters of an inch, a little bent, of a flefh-colour, with the: 
bafe blackifh: irides pale: the feathers of the head are long,. 
and form a creft: the head, neck, wings, and tail, are black, 
with glofles of blue, purple, and’ green, in different lights: 
back, rump, breaft, belly, and leffer wing coverts, pale rofe- 
colour, with a few irregular dark fpots: legs pale red: claws- 
crooked, and brown. 
FEMALE. The female differs merely in being paler. We have reafon to: 
think that the teints of thefe birds differ much, as Rufell* calls 
our Rofe a flefb-colour, while the name given it in the Péter/burgh- 
Tranf. is fanguineous. 
Pace ann This bird is met with in feveral parts of Europe, and in Afa.. 
MannERS. Tt comes in great numbers about Aleppo, in Fuly and Augu/?, in: 
purfuit of the fwarms of /ocujfs t ; whence it is held facred by 
the Turks, as great quantities are deftroyed by this means: it is’ 
alfo feen in vaft flocks, every year, in the fouth of Rufia, about 
the river Dow, and in Sibiria, about the Irtifch ; finding abundance: 
of Jocufts for food, and convenience for breeding between the 
rocks: it is alfo common on the borders of the Ca/pian Sea,, 
% Hifte of Aleppo, Pp. 7% + Hence called. the Locuft Bird. Ruffell. 
about. 
