314 Sir T. S. Raffles's Descriptive Catalogue 



3. LOXIA oryzivora, Linn. 

 Gelatik. <l£j\lf. The Java Sparrow. 

 This species is comparatively rare in Sumatra. 



4. loxia leucocephala. 

 Pipit bondol. Jjjcj cuJj^ 



Is about the size of the L. Malacca, of a reddish-brown or ches- 

 nut colour, growing darker towards the tail, and becoming 

 almost black on the abdomen. Head and neck almost white. 

 Bill blueish ; legs black. 



5. LOXIA prasina, Sparm. Mus. Carls. 



RANNAS. fjj\j 



This is a very beautiful species, in some degree intermediate 

 between Loxia and Fringilla. 



It is of a bright green on the head, back and wings ; blue on 

 the throat and forehead ; dirty green on the breast ; red on 

 the middle of the abdomen ; and passing into a rusty yellow 

 towards the vent. Tail-coverts and base of the tail-feathers 

 vermilion, their extremity black, as are also the outer wing- 

 feathers. The two upper tail-feathers are nearly twice as long 

 as the rest. Bill of a fine black, conical, round at the base ; 

 both mandibles a little scolloped towards the middle, which is 

 not very apparent when they are closed, as the lower is then 

 received within the upper. 



They are frequently seen in the rice-fields, and are great 

 destroyers of the grain, as well as the other Loxice. 



ALAUDA. 



