176 STUKNID/E. 



as well as some other foreign species, with the thrushes ; M. 

 le Vaillant was the first who has pointed out the true place 

 which this species ought to occupy, — namely near the 

 Shirnidce, or starling. 



This species has not yet been found in America, or New 

 Holland. 



The longevity of this species appears to be considerable, if 

 we may judge from the fact of one having been kept caged 

 above eight and twenty years. This individual came into the 

 possession of a clergyman, M. Von Wachter, the rector of 

 Frickenhausen, in 1774, and in the year 1802, was, accord- 

 ing to the testimony of Bechstein, still alive. 



The song of this species, according to the same authority, 

 M. Bechstein, is very agreeable, being a combination of those 

 of the starling, the goldfinch, and the siskin. 



The Rose-coloured Pastor is a very beautiful bird of un- 

 common appearance, owing to the abrupt division of the two 

 predominant colours of rose and black in its plumage, and its 

 very elegant crest ; its size is nearly ten inches in length, and 

 sixteen inches in width. 



The iris is pale brown ; the legs and toes are strongly 

 scaled on the front and top, and shafted at the back, all are of 

 a dingy flesh red, except the claws, which are brownish horn 

 colour. The tarsi is one inch and seven-eighths long ; the 

 middle toe one inch three-eighths, and the hinder toe, in- 

 cluding the large claw, measures one inch and seven-eighths. 



The adult male has a beautiful crest on the top of its head, 

 consisting of a quantity of loose arched feathers, which, owing 

 to the great spring in the quill of each feather, is never 

 entirely laid flat. The head, including the crest, also the 

 neck and breast, are black, reflected with steel-blue and 

 purple ; the back, rump, breast, sides, and shoulders, are a 

 fine rose, colour ; on the shoulders are a few dusky dashes. 

 The belly, upper and under tail-coverts are black. The 



