4 ■ !*■ - ROSE-COLOURED
THR.
D u n i i fu n -
F1 A: l .
?I,ACE AND
Mankera.
Turdua rofcui, Lt-n. Syft. x. p. 294. N° 15.— Faun, Suet, 21 g.— Nov, Cone,
Ac. Petrop. XV. p .4 78. t. 23. f. 1.
Sturnus rofeus, Scop. ann. i. p, 130. N° 191.
Turdus Seleucis, Faun. Aral. p. vi. a.— p. 5. N° 16.
Le Merle couleur de Rofe, Erif orn. ii. p. 350. N‘° 20.— Euf. oif. ill. p. 34S1
pi. 22.— PI. enl. 231.
MerulaRofea, Raii Syn. p, 67. 9.
Rofe or carnation-coloured Ouzel, Will. orn. p. 194-— Edvs, pi- 20.—
Mr. Zoo/. Apt- N° 5. pi. 5.— Aril, Zool.
Lev. Mu/.
C I Z E o f a Starling•- length near eight inches. Bill three
quarters of an inch, a little bent, of a flefh-colour, with the
bafe blaekifh: irides pale: the feathers of the head are long,,
and form a creftr the head, neck, wings, and tail, are black,
with gloffes of blue, purple, and green, in different lights i
back, rump, bread, belly, and leffer' wing coverts, pale rofe-
colour, with a few irregular dark fpots t legs pale red: claws
crooked, and hrown.
The female differs merely in being paler. We have reafon to
think that the teints o f thefe birds differ much, as Rujfell * calls
our Rofe a flefh-colour, white the name given it in the P'eterfburgh
Tranf. isfanguineous.
This bird is met with in feveral parts of Europe, and in Afta.
It comes in great numbers about Aleppo, in July and Augufi, in
purfuit of the fwarms of loeufts f ;• whence it is held facred by
the Turks, as great quantities are deftroyed by this means : it is
alfo feen in vaffi flocks, every year, in the fbuth of Ruffia, about
the river Don, and in Siberia, about the Irtifch; finding abundance
of locufls for food, and convenience for breeding between the
rocks : it • is alfo. common on the borders of the Cafpidn Sea,
• Biß, 0/ Aleppo, p. 70. t Hence calted the Locuß Bird. Ruffell.
about
about Aftrachan, and from thence all along the Volga *. We
hear of it in Switzerland, and Lapland t , but is faid never to exceed
the bounds of the latter.
It is a fcarce bird in refpeft to England, one being only now and
then met with. Edwards mentions two inftances ; to which we
can add one, that was fhot at Grantham, in Lincolnfhire, now in
poffeflion of Sir Jofeph Banks; as alfo the aflurance of one or
more being fhot almoft every feafon about Ormjkirk in Lancajhire.
It is more frequent in France, as it is often met with in Burgundy,
in its paflage to other parts; and is mentioned as common
to Italy by Aldrovandtis J.
Turdus cyanus, Lin. Syft. i. p* 296. N° 23.
Le Merle bleu, Euf. oif. iii. p. 355. pi- o\.— E,if. orn. a. p. 282. N° 37.
Le Merle folitaire femelle d’ltalie, Ft. enl. 250. (female).
Cyanos, feu Caerulea avis Eellonii, Raii Sjn. p. 66. N° 5.— Will. orn. p. 192.
Indian Mock-bird, id. p. 66. N° 6 f
Solitary Sparrow, Edw. pi. 18. (male).
Lev. Mu/.
T H I S is fomewhat lefs than a Blackbird : length eight
inches. Bill fourteen lines, hooked at the tip; colour of it
blaekifh : the infide o f the mouth and eye-lids orange : the irides
dull hazel the plumage of a cinereous blue, but each feather is
marked near the end with a brown band, and the very tip white :
the quills and tail are dufky, edged with cinereous blue : the legs
dufky.
The female is likewife blue, but much inclined to afh-colour,
and beneath tranfverfely waved with this lafl: colour and
black.
4- BLUE THR.
D esc&iftiom .
F emale.
* See Decouv. Ruff. vol. i. 137.— 11. -146. &c.
t Limueus. See alfo Amten, Acad. vol. iv. N° 594. t Hiß. des oif.
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