. Bird notes . astors {Pastor roseus). This species is so wellknown as to be almost out of place in these notes. It is anoccasional visitor to the British Isles and has a very wide range,covering Europe, Asia, Asia Minor, Turkestan, and India. Whattempted me to purchase the pair, which were imported by ouresteemed member Capt. Perreau, was their exquisite have never seen a bird richer in hue, especially as to the depthof the rosy tint as the $. The courting display is very interest-ing and quaint, the wings are dropped till they almost touch theground, the tail outspread and also d
. Bird notes . astors {Pastor roseus). This species is so wellknown as to be almost out of place in these notes. It is anoccasional visitor to the British Isles and has a very wide range,covering Europe, Asia, Asia Minor, Turkestan, and India. Whattempted me to purchase the pair, which were imported by ouresteemed member Capt. Perreau, was their exquisite have never seen a bird richer in hue, especially as to the depthof the rosy tint as the $. The courting display is very interest-ing and quaint, the wings are dropped till they almost touch theground, the tail outspread and also dropped and dragged alongthe ground (very similar to a pigeons display;, the breast is alsodropped and nearly all the feathers shaken out loose; thus hepursues his mate with a series of bounding hops, pausing nowand again to utter a sort of rattling cackle. This movement isvaried with a sort of erect stalking, in which the feathers areheld very tight to the body, and the beautiful head-feathers fully Mird X MAGPIR MANNIKIN HYBRID. (Spertnestes cucullata)IA mawesthes fringilloides).
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