ROSE-COLOURED THRUSH. 275 



beak slightly bent, of a flesh-colour, with the base 

 dusky : irides pale : head crested, and, with the 

 neck, wings, and tail, black, glossed with blue, 

 purple, and green, according to the position with 

 respect to the light: the back, rump, breast, 

 belly, and lesser wing-coverts, pale rose-colour, 

 with a few irregular dark spots : legs pale red : 

 claws brown, and much crooked : female rather 

 paler. 



This is met with in many parts of Europe, and 

 has also been observed in Asia, even to India : it 

 is abundant about Aleppo, towards the latter end 

 of summer, where it pursues the locusts : it is also 

 seen in flocks every year in the south of Russia : 

 it also occasionally visits England, but so rarely 

 as scarcely to be admitted into the British list : 

 there are but few instances on record of its having 

 been taken, except about Ormskirk in Lancashire, 

 where one or two are said to be taken almost every 

 season. It is frequent in France, especially about 

 Burgundy, in its passage to other parts. 



