295 
THE EOSE-COLOUEED PASTOE. 
Eose-coloured Starling, Ouzel, or Thrush. 
Pastor roseus, Linn, (sp.) 
Turdus „ „ 
Has at uncertain intervals, during summer and autumn, 
visited all quarters of the island, including the 
range of the most western counties. 
In the course of three successive years, it has been met with. It 
has generally appeared singly, and during the cherry season, 
been taken alive in several instances. Mr. Yigors stated, in the 
Zoological Journal (No. 4, p. 489), that one of these birds had 
been shot near Wexford, in 1820. In the first volume of the 
Magazine of Natural History, p. 493, the following communica- 
tion from Mr. C. Adams Drew, dated Ennis, June 25th, 1828, 
appeared : — “ It is now above twenty years since, on visiting my 
friend Mr. Lane at Eoxton, I found him in his garden endeavour- 
ing to shoot a strange bird, which had for several days previous 
been making sad havoc among his cherries. After two or three 
unsuccessful attempts on the part of Mr. Lane, the bird at last 
fell to my barrel. * * * Its cry resembled that of the water- 
ouzel. It was quite a rara avis in this country, no one knowing 
anything of it.” A description of the bird follows, proving it to 
have been the Pastor roseus. Hr. E. Graves of Dublin writing to 
a mutual friend in Belfast, in Nov. 1830, mentioned, that among 
his late acquisitions had been the P. roseus , shot in a cherry 
orchard in the county of Clare (in the summer of 1830 ?) by one 
of his pupils, whose father shot a bird of the same species thirty 
years before, in the same orchard. A rose-coloured pastor “ was 
captured at Carrigataha, adjoining Ballibrado, county of Tipperary, 
in June, 1833, by Mr. Wm. Pennell, who baited a fish-hook with 
a cherry, which the bird swallowed, and was thus taken. One 
was shot in a garden near Dublin on the 20th of July, 1833. On 
dissection, it proved to be a female ; the eggs were small and not 
distinct ; gizzard muscular ; the skins of cherries visible, by which 
