66 sturnidjB. — coaviDiE. 



Genus PASTOR, Temminck, Man. d'Om. p. 82 (1815). 



Pastor = a herdsman, from pasco = I pasture, feed. 



Pastor roseus. Rose-coloured Pastoe. 

 Tardus roseus^ LinntMs, S. N. i. p. 294 (1766). 



Merula rosea^ Naum. ii. p. 206. 



Tkremmaphilus roseus, Macg. i. p. 613. 



Pastor roseus, Hewitson, p. 217; Gray, p. 90; Yarr. ed. 2, 

 ii. p. 48 ; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 52 ; Newton, ii. p. 243 ; Gould, 

 iii. pis. 55, 56; Harting, p. 30; Dresser, iv. p. 423. 



Rose-coloured Pastor, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 51. 



Soseics = rose-coloured, from rosa = a rose. 



An irregular visitant, chiefly after midsummer, to nearly 

 every part of the British Isles. Breeds in Western Asia, 

 and, irregularly, as far west as Switzerland; a regular 

 winter visitant to India. 



Family CORVID^. 

 Genus PYERHOCORAX, Vieillot, Analyse, p. 36 (1816). 



Fyrrhoeorax = irvppoKopa^, a Orowwith a reddish beak, in Pliny, .J/i ZT.x. 68; 

 from TTvppos = the colour of fire, Trvp, and Kopa^ = a Crow. 



Pyrrhocorax graculus. Chough. 



Corvus Graculus, Linncens, S. N. i. p. 158 (1766). 



Corvus graculus^ Naum. ii. p. 114. 



Fregilus graculus, Macg. i. p. 587; Hewitson, p. 218; Yarr. 



ed. 2, ii. p. 54; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 58; Gould, iii. pi. 62.. 

 Coracia gracula. Gray, p. 89. 

 Pyrrhocorax graculus, Harting, p. 30; Newton, ii. p. 252; 



Dresser, iv. p. 437. 

 Chough, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 56. 



Graculus = a Jackdaw, in, late classical Latin. Akin to gallus = a, Cock, 

 garrio = I chatter, &c. 



A local resident, principally on the sea-clifFs of Great 

 Britain ^ westward from Hampshire and northward to the 

 Hebrides ; also in Ireland and the Channel Islands. It occurs 



