. A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidae, and arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillidae . arein an intermediate and curious change of plumage. I have transcribed Mr. Swinhoes descriptions, which were taken fromfresh individuals, and correspond exactly with those I possess ; two ofwhich are now figured for the first time. Nothing is known with regard to the extent of country inhabited bythis bird in the Island of Formosa, or its nest and eggs. Canon H. B. Tristram kindly lent me two specimens which werecollected in Formosa by Mr. R. Swinhoe. 41 /• Specimens examined. Sex. Mus. <? E.
. A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidae, and arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillidae . arein an intermediate and curious change of plumage. I have transcribed Mr. Swinhoes descriptions, which were taken fromfresh individuals, and correspond exactly with those I possess ; two ofwhich are now figured for the first time. Nothing is known with regard to the extent of country inhabited bythis bird in the Island of Formosa, or its nest and eggs. Canon H. B. Tristram kindly lent me two specimens which werecollected in Formosa by Mr. R. Swinhoe. 41 /• Specimens examined. Sex. Mus. <? E. B. <? imm. E. B. ? E. B. $ imm. E. B. <? H. B. , Tristram. S H. B. Tristram. Locality. Length, Fungshan (Swinhoe) 3-8 Takow (Sivinhoe). 315 Takow (Sivinhoe). 375 Takow [Swinhoe). 34 Formosa (Sicinhoe) 4-1 Formosa. (Sioinhoe) 39 2-15 1-45 0-6 Ving. Tail. Tars. Culm. 2-2 1-55 0-6 0-45 2-2 115 0-6 2-0 1-53 0-6 0-45 2-1 1-5 0-6 0-4 2-2 1-6 0-6 0-45 0-45 The figures (Plate VI.) are taken from (fig. 3) a and (fig. 4) rf,specimens in my own collection, procured by Mr. R. Swinhoe. del Jt ItK Figs 1,2 MUNTA ^„Q /. 4 „ Hanliarb imp. MUNIA FERRUGINOUS MUNIA. PLATE VII. (Figs. 1, 2). Loxia ferruginosa, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, pi. 90, 91, c? et jun. (1789).Loxia ferruginosa, Lath. Gen. Syn. suppl. ii. p. 196 (1801) ; Latli. Ind. Ornith. Suppl. ii. p. xiv. (1801) ; Shaw, Gen. Zoology, ix. p. 327 (1815).Coccothraustesfenmginosa, YieUl. Nouv. Diet. xiii. p. 541 (1817) ; Vieill. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. iii. p. 1012 (1823).Ferruginous Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Hist. Birds, v. p. 265 (1822).Fringilla majandides, Temm. PL Col. 500, fig. 3 (1838).Munia ferruginosa, Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. A. S. B. p. 116 (1849) ; Reichb. Singvogel, p. 41, pi. xv. figs. 134, 135 (1861) ; Wald. Ibis, 1871, p. ferruginea. Gray et Mitch. Gen. Birds, ii. p. 370 (1849).Munia ferruginea, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 451 (1850) ; Bernst
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