KOSE-COLOURED PASTOR — JAY — MAGPIE. 
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Starling for a fortnight, in a large flock of others, but that he lost sight of it 
at a time when he beard one was shot at !Melton. 
KOSE-COLOURED PASTOR. Pastor roseus (Linnaeus). 
This species is inserted on the authority of Mr. Macaulay, who states 
(‘Mid Xat.,’ 1882, p. 63) that one was seen near Foxton, about 1870, by the 
late Rev. H. Matthews. It was in the company of a flock of Starlings. Since 
then. Turner has told me that a man named Collins, now deceased, received a 
specimen in the flesh from Enderby, about 1870-75. 
Family COKYID^. 
JAY. Gari'ulus glandaniis (Linnaeus). 
Resident, and generally distributed. — Jlr. Davenport finds their nests and 
eggs every year, and, on 27th May, 1887, he found a nest containing four 
eggs of a beautiful pink variety, which he considers a great rarity. 
In Rutland. — Resident, and generally distributed. 
INIAGPIE. Pica rustica (Scopoli). 
Resident, and generally distributed. — This saucy and mischievous Crow has 
been reported to me as pecking out the eyes of Lambs ; and no doubt this may be 
true, as, in common with all the Corvidae, the Magpie has a hankering for animal 
food. When shooting in the thick woods at Billesdon Coplow, 17th Xov., 1887, 
we came across a flock of twenty or so, congregated about a dead Sheep. 
Harley recorded that he had observed the nest of the Magpie in hedges, 
not more than six feet from the ground, and, as illustrative of the confidence 
reposed in Man by this bird (or rather, I should suppose, its audacity), he referred 
to a nest “ placed in the fork of a low ash, nearly opposite the first toll-gate on the 
Aylestone Road, in the spring of 1845.” He also wrote : — “ We remember seeing 
the nest of the ^Magpie fixed within the branches of a large elm, some years ago, 
standing in the very centre of a market-town,” but does not say if this was in 
Leicestershire. Jlr. Davenport remarks : — “ A Magpie begins to build, say, at 
the end of IMarch, and takes about a month to complete her nest ; let the eggs 
be taken, one week will suffice for the rearing of a second nest.” He further 
records, however, that in 1885, a ^Magpie began to build so early as the 1st ^March. 
Mr. J. Lingham Lees, of Hinckley, writes me that a tame Magpie, which had 
been in the possession of his family for nearly ten years, laid two eggs in 1886, 
and three in 1887, but has since been unfortunately killed by a Rat. 
Subject to variation of colouring. — I recorded in the ‘ Zoologist,’ 1886, 
p. 17 : — “ Mr. J. W. Whitaker, of Mansfield, Notts, writes me that his brother, 
Jlr. W. Whitaker, of Wistow Grange, shot a cream-coloured variety in 1880, and 
