. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 568 FRINGILLIDA 56. MELOPHUS. w Type. Melophus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 290 (1837). M. Head of Melophus melanicterus. Range. Coincident with that of the species. 1. Melophus melanicterus. Moineau de Macao, Daubent. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 224. fig. 1; Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 486 (1775). Black and Orange Finch, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 268 (1783). Fringilla melanictera, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 910 (1788). Emberiza erythroptera, Jard. Sf Selby, III. Orn. pi. 132 (1825-39). Emberiza cristata, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35; Sykes,


. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 568 FRINGILLIDA 56. MELOPHUS. w Type. Melophus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 290 (1837). M. Head of Melophus melanicterus. Range. Coincident with that of the species. 1. Melophus melanicterus. Moineau de Macao, Daubent. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 224. fig. 1; Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 486 (1775). Black and Orange Finch, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 268 (1783). Fringilla melanictera, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 910 (1788). Emberiza erythroptera, Jard. Sf Selby, III. Orn. pi. 132 (1825-39). Emberiza cristata, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35; Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 94; Blyth, J. A. S. Peng. xi. p. 602 (1842). Emberiza lathami, J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 2 (1831); Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 057 (1844). Emberiza subcristata, SyJces, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 93. Emberiza nipalensis, Hodgs. Asiat. Research, xix. p. 157 (1836) ; id. Icon, ined., Passeres, pi. 289. figs. 1, 2 (nos. 341-42); id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844). Melophus erythropterus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 290 (1837). Euspiza lathami, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 376 (1844); id. Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 107 (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mns. As. Soc. p. 129 (1849). Melophus melanicterus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 470 (1850); Horsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. Co. Mus. ii. p. 489 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 381 (18631; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 387 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. '467 (1873) ; id, Str. F. 1873, p. 47 ; Cock Sf Marsh, t, c. p. 357; Godioin-Aust. J. A. S. Bene/, xliii. p. 171 (1874); Blyth | Wald. B. Burm. p. 95 (1875); Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 254; Butler, t. c. p. 498 ; id. Str. F. 1876, p. 37 ; Hume, t, c. p. 224; Fairb. t, c. p. 261 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 4(52; David, Sf Oust. Ois. Chine,]).333 (1877); Anderson, Zool. , Aves, p. 604 (1878); Hume $ Davis. Str. F. 1878, p. 409 ; Davids. Sf Wenden, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 95; Murray, t. c. p. 113; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 107; Scully, t. c. p. 334 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind etc. p. 48 (


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