STARLING— ROSE-COLOURED PASTOR. 
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White mentions the bird casually,^ and imph'es that 
they were common in his neighbourhood. Nor can they 
have been winter visitors only, since he does not include 
them in his " Winter Birds of Passage." 
On more than one occasion Hawker " stormed the 
armies of starlings that roosted in the reeds on Alresford 
Pond " 2 
We have a record of their occurrence as migrants at 
the Needles Lighthouse on October 28th, 1892, when they 
were noticed flying round the light during the whole night. 
G^i^\5S— Pastor. 
90. Pastor roseus. Rose-coloured Pastor. 
A rare occasional visitor in spring and summer. 
The following occurrences are on record : — 
A male at Purewell, near Christchurch, in 1841. (Hart 
collection.) 
One near Sea View, in the Isle of Wight, May, 1855, 
formerly in the possession of the Ryde Philoso- 
phical Society. (More.) 
One at Headon Hill, near Alum Bay, in the spring of 
1858. (More.) 
A male near Christchurch on July 8th, 1862. (Hart 
collection.) 
One at Fordingbridge, in July, 1876. (Corbin.) 
One at West Cowes, in the same month. (Hadfield.) 
' Letters xi. and xlii. to Barrington. Selborne. February 8th, 1772, and 
August 7th, 1778. 
= " Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker," 
