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STUKNID.E. 
Not only does lie assist in building and batching, but he also 
carries a plentiful supply of food to his sitting mate ; and when 
the nestlings are hatched, as well as after they have left the 
nest, not even the mother herself is more assiduous in her 
endeavours to supply their unceasing wants. 
The autumn moult of the young is completed early in 
October. 
In the winter of 1868, the Eev. D. Webster, minister of the 
island of Fetlar, frequently saw a pure white Starling in a flock 
near the manse. A similar variety is recorded as having been 
obtained in Orkney in 1846. 
THE EOSE-COLOUEED PASTOR 
Pastor Toseus. 
This attractive species, which has long been known as an 
occasional visitor to the Orkney Isles, has also been observed 
in Unst, once by Thomas Edmondston in April 1843, and 
thrice by myself during the last thirteen years. It is scarcely 
l)robable that the bird visits no other island of the Shetland 
group. Were it to be looked for, it might in all likelihood be 
not infrequently detected among the flocks of Starlings which 
every^vhere abound. These flocks, however, are but little 
noticed, small birds being seldom or never eaten by the 
Shetlanders. 
On the 10th of August 1860, I shot a male in its second 
year’s plumage at Halligarth, but observed nothing further of 
the Pastor until the 7th of September 1863, when I procured 
another specimen at the same iflace. It was a young bird, and 
as it flew past with some Starlings its light colour immediately 
attracted my attention; but never having previously seen one 
in its first year’s plumage, I was unable to satisfy myself as to its 
species without a closer inspection. The flock alighted among 
a number of cows, and then, by creeping behind a loosely-built 
wall, I approached sufliciently near to obtain a good view of 
