. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. STURDIN^. 229. THE ROSE-COLOURED STARLING. PAsTOR ROSEUS (Linnseus). This handsome species, which was first recognized as a visitor to the British Islands in 1742, when Edwards figured an example killed near Norwood, has subsequently occurred at intervals in many parts of England, occasionally in Wales, and often in Devon and Cornwall; though more frequently on the eastern side of the island. As a rule its arrival has taken place between May and October, and the visitors to our shores appear to have been birds which had separated from flocks of
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. STURDIN^. 229. THE ROSE-COLOURED STARLING. PAsTOR ROSEUS (Linnseus). This handsome species, which was first recognized as a visitor to the British Islands in 1742, when Edwards figured an example killed near Norwood, has subsequently occurred at intervals in many parts of England, occasionally in Wales, and often in Devon and Cornwall; though more frequently on the eastern side of the island. As a rule its arrival has taken place between May and October, and the visitors to our shores appear to have been birds which had separated from flocks of their own species and joined those of Starlings &c. In Scotland, the Rose-coloured Starling has rather frequently been noticed in the Orkneys, and has occurred in every district except the Outer Hebrides; in Ireland, though rarer, it has wandered to the extreme west. As might be expected in the case of a species which has casually visited the Shetlands, the Rose-coloured Starling has reached the Fseroes; but up to the present time it has not strayed to Iceland. In Norway one occurred near Trondhjem in 1885, and one at Sitskoven in 1894, while several examples have been obtained in Sweden, Finland and Denmark, and on Heligoland nearly fifty have been noticed in as many years. Over the rest of Europe the bird is an irregular migrant, increasing in frequency to the southward; and, though rarer in the extreme west, it has been found near Seville. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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