. A dictionary of birds . oduction. PASSERINE, a group so named of Nitzsch in 1820 {DeutscheArcJiiv fur Physiol, vi. p. 253) to include the genera Sturnus, Oriolus,Lanius, Muscicapa, Ampelis, Hirundo, Turdus, Accentor, Sylvia, Mota-cilla, Anthus, Alauda, Parus, Sitta, Certhia (with Tichodroma), ^ Voyages du Baron de la Hontan dans IAmerique septentrionale, ed. 2,Amsterdam: 1705, vol. i. pp. 93, 94. In the first edition, published at TheHague in 1703, the passage, less explicit in details but to the same effect, is atp. 80. The authors letter, describing the circumstance, is dated May 1687. 2 T
. A dictionary of birds . oduction. PASSERINE, a group so named of Nitzsch in 1820 {DeutscheArcJiiv fur Physiol, vi. p. 253) to include the genera Sturnus, Oriolus,Lanius, Muscicapa, Ampelis, Hirundo, Turdus, Accentor, Sylvia, Mota-cilla, Anthus, Alauda, Parus, Sitta, Certhia (with Tichodroma), ^ Voyages du Baron de la Hontan dans IAmerique septentrionale, ed. 2,Amsterdam: 1705, vol. i. pp. 93, 94. In the first edition, published at TheHague in 1703, the passage, less explicit in details but to the same effect, is atp. 80. The authors letter, describing the circumstance, is dated May 1687. 2 There are several records of the occm-rence in Britain of this Pigeon, but inmost cases the birds noticed cannot be supposed to have found their own wayhither. One, which was shot in Fife in 1825, may, however, have crossed theAtlantic unassisted by man. ^ The names Passcjt/brmes and lately even Passeridse{\) have been in someinstances employed ; with very slight or no modification they signify the samething as 698 PASSERTNI—PATELLA Umberiza, Frmgilla, Loxia, Cindus(f) and Corvus—thus differingsomewhat from Johannes Midlers application of the cognate term PASSERINI {Ahhandl. K. Ahad. Berlin, Phys. Kl. 1847, ), Avhich he regarded as equivalent to the Order Insessores(as it was then called), separating its members into PasscriniPOLYMYODI (or OsciNES), Tracheophones and PiCARii, thoughcautiously declaring these to be not so much the names of groups,but as merely indicating different laryftgeat formations. PASTOR, Temmincks generic name in 1815 for a beautifull)ird, the Tardus roseus of Linnaeus, very commonly known in Eng-lish as the Rose-coloured Pastor, one of the Sturnidx (Starling),which is not an infrequent visitor to the British Islands. It is a bird of most irregular and erratichabits—a vast horde suddenly arriv-ing at some place to Avhich it mayhave hitherto been a stranger, andat once making a settlement there,leaving it wholly deserted so soontasto
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