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to take up its abode with you it is only necessary to provide 

 suitable accommodation. All tbat is needful is to place a small 

 box with a suitable hole in it at one end, anywhere on the outer 

 walls of the house, out of the reach of cats. A spring or two 

 ago I so placed three boxes on the house of a friend of mine, and 

 before many hours had elapsed all were taken possession of by 

 Staxlings, though they had a struggle for them with the Spar- 

 rows. This plan is adopted in Denmark, where the bird is a 

 great favoimte. 



37. PASTOR, Temminck. 

 26. EosE-coioTTRED Staelixg. P. nosETJS, {Linnceus.) 



Pastor roseus, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, I., 102. 

 „ „ Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Biixls, Ed. 2, II., 48. 



This is a rare casual visitant. Mr. Selby mentions in his 

 catalogue the occurrence of four specimens in the district; and 

 I have to notice the capture of several others. 



An adult female was taken on the 31st of July, 1832, at Eock, 

 j^orthumberland, where it was seen for several days feeding on 

 strawberries in. llr. Smith's garden, before that gentleman shot 

 it. I am indebted to Mr. Smith for the specimen which is m 

 my collection. I am informed, by Mr. "W. Proctor, that another 

 example was shot near Diu-ham in the same year. On the 25th 

 of July, 1855, a fine male specimen, which I purchased of a poul- 

 terer on the followiag day, was shot at Elswick, near l^ewcastle. 

 On the 15th of September, 1856, another male specimen was shot 

 at the Black Fell, Gateshead, and this is also in my collection. 

 In July of the same year a third example was killed at Whit- 

 burn, by Sir Hedworth Williamson's gamekeeper. Thomas Wil- 

 son, Esq., of Shotley Hall, Durham, shot in that neighbourhood, 

 in 1860, a fine specimen, out of a flock of Starlings. In August, 

 1868, an example was caught alive at Cresswell, IS'orthumber- 

 land. Others have occurred, but it seems unnecessary to make 

 further allusion to them. 



I possess a good series of specimens of this beautiful bird, from 

 India and elsewhere, which, with those captured in England, show 

 verj' distinctly that the clearness of the rose colour is very much 



