. A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidae, and arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillidae . are very like M. maja, except that theyhave the head black instead of white. One of these, a male, is 4f% inches in length, irides red-brown, beakplumbeous, head, neck, and upper part of breast black, upper tail-covertsgolden-chestnut, rest of plumage chestnut, becoming dusky on the tail ; itsstomach contained a great many minute particles of quartz. At first I thought this bird was Munia ruhronigra (Hodgs.), which itmuch resembles ; but that species has the middle of the belly, the vent, andthe
. A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidae, and arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillidae . are very like M. maja, except that theyhave the head black instead of white. One of these, a male, is 4f% inches in length, irides red-brown, beakplumbeous, head, neck, and upper part of breast black, upper tail-covertsgolden-chestnut, rest of plumage chestnut, becoming dusky on the tail ; itsstomach contained a great many minute particles of quartz. At first I thought this bird was Munia ruhronigra (Hodgs.), which itmuch resembles ; but that species has the middle of the belly, the vent, andthe under tail-coverts hlach instead of chestnut. Mr. H. 0. Forbes also procured this bird in Sumatra. Specimens examined. No. Sex. Mus. Locality. Tail. Tars. Culm. a. <? E. B. Java. 3-65 1-95 M5 0-6 0-4 h. 1 E. B. Java. 3-7 2-0 1-45 0-45 c. <? E. B. Sumatra (H. 0. Forbes). 3-7 2-0 1-4 0-6 0-45 d. juv. E. B. I 3-95 2-2 1-3 0-6 0-4 e. <? A. Boucard. Cochinchina, Introduced. 4-4 2-0 0-6 04 The figure (Plate V. fig. 3) is taken from the male a in my owncollection. PI III. F W frohawk del et llth PYRRHULA ERYTHROCEPHALA,^. PYRRHULA RED-HEADED BULLFINCH. PLATE III. Pyrrlmla erythrocephala, Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 174. Pyrrhiihi erythrocephala, Gould, Cent. Birds Himal. Mount, jil. xxxii.(1832). Pyrrhula erythi^ocephalus, Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. xiii. 1844, p. 951. Pyrrhula erythrocephala, Hodgs. Grays Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844). Pyrrhula erythrocephala, Gray et^Mitch. Genera Birds, ii. p. 387 (1844). Pyrrhula erythrocephala. Gray, Cat. Hodgs. Coll. Brit. Mus. p. Ill(1846). Pyrrhula erythroccphalus, Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 123(1849). Pyrrhula erythrocephala, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 525 (1850) ;Gould, Birds of Asia, v. pi. 36 (1853) ; Eyton, Cat. Birds, p. 262(1856) ; Horsf. et Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. Comp. ii. p. 454(1856-8); Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 483, 1859, p. 177;Gray, Cat. Hodgs. Coll. Brit
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