ROSE-COLOURED STARLING. 
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I NS ESS ORES. STURNIDjE. 
CONIROSTRES. 
ROSE-COLOURED STARLING. 
Pastor roseus. 
* PLATE LV. PIG. II. 
The Rose-coloured Starling can scarcely now be 
called rare as a British bird. Nearly fifty instances of 
its appearance in this country are on record. Mr. Yar- 
rell mentions one in which the male and female were 
seen together in summer. 
The only information with regard to its nidification 
which I have seen, is the following brief extract from 
Mr. T. L. Powys of Geneva, in the “ Zoologist/' “ The 
nest of the Rose-coloured Pastor has been found three 
times in the canton of Geneva; the first instance was 
in the year 1810, at Nay dan, near Saleve; the second 
at Yernoux, a village by the side of the lake of Geneva, 
in 1847; the third was in a hole in a nut tree, and re¬ 
sembled that of the common starling. The eggs are pure 
white, of the size and shape of those of the common 
starling, in whose company the Rose-coloured Pastor is 
generally observed hereabouts/' 
Mr. Wolley, in a letter to Mr. Newton, says, “Herr 
Nordman, an ornithologist from Helsingfors, informed 
me that he had formerly resided at Odessa, and that 
Pastor roseus was plentiful near there, rearing its young 
in holes in banks; many pairs of birds breeding in com¬ 
pany like sand-martins." 
The ecro* which I have figured is from the collection 
of Mr. Walter. 
