THE ROSE-COLOURED 

 STARLING. 



{Pastor roseus). 



T N recent classifications of Birds we find the 

 -*■ Starlings placed near to the Weaver-Birds 

 and Larks, on account of the shape of their wing, 

 and the number of their primary-quills, the first 

 primary being very feebly developed, and the 

 number of these quills being ten. 



These differences, however, are not now consid- 

 ered to have the importance which was at one 

 time attached to them by Zoologists, and the old 

 idea is once more reverted to, that the Starlings 

 are allied to the Crows. Like the latter birds, 

 they walk on the ground, and do not hop like 

 Thrushes or Finches ; further, they nest in holes 



