. A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidae, and arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillidae . aded with fruit; and when that disappears, the birds disappear also,and do not return till the following year. Specimens examined. No. Sex. Mus. Locality. Length. Wing . Tail. Tars. Culm. a. <? E. B. Galjoon. 5-75 3-3 2-5 0-8 0-65 h. ^ E. B. Africa. 5-95 3-05 2-45 0-8 0-65 c. <? E. B. Africa. 6-15 3-2 2-44 0-75 0-65 d. ? E. B. West Africa. 6-35 3-3 2-65 0-8 0-7 e. ? E. B. West Africa. 6-4 3-25 2-6 0-8 07 /■ <? Fantee {Kirhy). 6-5 3-15 2-41 0-75 0-65 9- ? E. B. Fantee [U
. A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidae, and arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillidae . aded with fruit; and when that disappears, the birds disappear also,and do not return till the following year. Specimens examined. No. Sex. Mus. Locality. Length. Wing . Tail. Tars. Culm. a. <? E. B. Galjoon. 5-75 3-3 2-5 0-8 0-65 h. ^ E. B. Africa. 5-95 3-05 2-45 0-8 0-65 c. <? E. B. Africa. 6-15 3-2 2-44 0-75 0-65 d. ? E. B. West Africa. 6-35 3-3 2-65 0-8 0-7 e. ? E. B. West Africa. 6-4 3-25 2-6 0-8 07 /■ <? Fantee {Kirhy). 6-5 3-15 2-41 0-75 0-65 9- ? E. B. Fantee [Ussher). 6-15 3-15 2-6 0-8 0-65 h. ? E. B. Fan tee (Ussher). 5-75 3-05 0-75 0-65 i. <? E. B. Gold Coast {Kirby). 6-35 3-35 2-65 0-7 0-65 J- ? juv. E. B. Fantee. 5-0 2-9 2-35 0-7 0-6 k ^ A. Boucard. Landana, West Africa. 6-3 3-4 0-85 0-75 I. ? A. Boucard. West Africa. 5-95 3-1 2-6 0-75 0-65 m. ? A. Boucard. Fantee. 5-6 3-3 2-55 0-75 0-6 71. S U.) ? H. B. Tristram. Gold Coast. — — _ _ _ The figures (Plate II.), male and female, are taken fiom a and g in myown collection. P] V. t\ ael «t litK . Ti^.l, 2 MUTSfIA ATRICAPILLA .i^„ 3 „ SUilATRETStSIS Hanharfc iinp. MUNIA BLACK-HEADED MUNIA. PLATE V. (Figs. 1, 2). Loxia atricapilla, Vieill. Ois. Chant, p. 84, pi. liii. (1805). Coccothraustes atricapilla, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xiii. p. 535 (1817). Coccothraustes atricapilla, Vieill. Encycl. Metli. iii. p. 1007 (1823). Loxia atricapilla, Griff. Cuv. Anim. Kingd. Aves, ii. p. 154 (1829). Loxia atricapilla, Less. Traits dOrnith. p. 445 (1831). Mimia ruhroniger, Hodgs. Asiat. Res. xix. 1836, p. 153 ; Blytli, S. B. xxii. 1854, p. 412 ; Horsf. et Moore, Cat. Birds, (1856-8) ; Gray, Cat. Birds of Nepal, p. 56, 2nd edit. (1863). Lonchura mclanocephala, MClell. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, jd. 163. Spermesfes melanocephalus, Blyth, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. xii. 1843,p. 166 ; Hodgs. Grays Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844). Amadina
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