. On the natural history and classification of birds . derness of theirfeet. Vidua presents us withthose elegant finches peculiarto Western Africa, the malesof which, in the breedingseason, are ornamented withtails of an extraordinary sizeand structure, as in Vidua phce-nicoptera Sw. (). Canthis group represent the Para-diseadce ? We confess such wasonce our opinion; and yet wecannot discover how they canbe removed from the situationwe here assign them, so as tobring them in as the tenuiros-tral type of the Coccothraus-tincB>—a rank we have, for thepresent, assigned to
. On the natural history and classification of birds . derness of theirfeet. Vidua presents us withthose elegant finches peculiarto Western Africa, the malesof which, in the breedingseason, are ornamented withtails of an extraordinary sizeand structure, as in Vidua phce-nicoptera Sw. (). Canthis group represent the Para-diseadce ? We confess such wasonce our opinion; and yet wecannot discover how they canbe removed from the situationwe here assign them, so as tobring them in as the tenuiros-tral type of the Coccothraus-tincB>—a rank we have, for thepresent, assigned to the genus Ploceus, of which the foregoingare the most prominent forms, we come to the Ame-rican group of Tiaris, a small assemblage of prettylittle birds, most of which, as the name implies, arecrowned with crests. All the species appear peculiar toAmerica; some show an affinity to Ploceus, others tothe small tanagers (Nemosia), while two or three fromBrazil closely resemble the goldfinches. Thus conducted * Birds of Western Africa, i. p.
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