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THE ROSE-COLOURED STARLING. 
PAsToR RdésEUS (Linnzus). 
This handsome species, which was first recognized as a visitor 
to the British Islands in 1742, when Edwards figured an example 
killed near Norwood, has subsequently occurred at intervals in many 
parts of England, occasionally in Wales, and often in Devon and 
Cornwall ; though more frequently on the eastern side of the island. 
As a rule its arrival has taken place between May and October, 
and the visitors to our shores appear to have been birds which 
had separated from flocks of their own species and joined those of 
Starlings &c. In Scotland, the Rose-coloured Starling has rather 
frequently been noticed in the Orkneys, and has occurred in every 
district except the Outer Hebrides; in Ireland, though rarer, it 
has wandered to the extreme west. 
As might be expected in the case of a species which has casually 
visited the Shetlands, the Rose-coloured Starling has reached the 
Feroes ; but up to the present time it has not strayed to Iceland. 
In Norway one occurred near Trondhjem in 1885, and one at 
Sitskoven in 1894, while several examples have been obtained in 
Sweden, Finland and Denmark, and on Heligoland nearly fifty have 
been noticed in as many years. Over the rest of Europe the bird is 
an irregular migrant, increasing in frequency to the southward ; and, 
though rarer in the extreme west, it has been found near Seville 
