296 AVES. 



E. pithyomis, Pali.; Naum. 104, 3. (The Pine, Bunting.) The 



throat, and a streak on the side of the head, red chesnut colour. 



M. Meyer distinguishes those buntings which have the nail of the 



thumb elongated like that of the Lark, by the name of Plectro- 



PHANES. Such is 



Emb. nivalis, L.; Bruant de neige; Enl. 511; Naum. 106 and 

 107. (The Snow Bunting.) Known by a broad, longitudinal, 

 white band on the wing. A northern bird, which becomes nearly 

 all white in winter.(l) To this we should add, 



Iring. laponica, Gm. or calcarata, Pall. Fr. Tr. Ill, pi. 1, 1; 

 Grand Montain of JBufP.; Naum. 108. (The Lapland Bunting.) 

 Spotted with black, on a fawn coloured ground, the throat and 

 upper part of the breast of the male, black. Inhabits the same 

 countries as the preceding, is sometimes, but rarely, seen' in 

 France during the winter. 



Fringilla, Lin. 



The Sparrows have a conical beak, more or less thick at base; but 

 its commissure is not angular. They feed generally on grain, and 

 are for the most part voracious and noxious. We subdivide them 

 as follows: 



Ploceus, Cuv.(2) 



The Weavers are provided with such a large beak, that they have 

 been partly classed with the Cassici; its straight commissure dis- 

 tinguishes them from the latter. The upper mandible is moreover 

 slightly convex. They are found in both worlds, and most of those 

 in the eastern continent are very skilful in the construction of their 

 nest, which they form of intertwined blades of grass, from which 

 circumstance they receive their name. Such is 



Loxia philippina, L. ; Toucnam-Courvi des Philippines; Enl. 

 135. Yellow, spotted with brown; black throat. Its nest, which 

 is a suspended sphere, is pierced by a vertical canal, opening 

 underneath, which communicates with a cavity on the side in 

 which the young ones are lodged. (3) 



(1) The Emb. montana, and the Emb. mustelina, are merely different states of 

 the Snow Bunting. 



(2) Ukomut, Weaver, Vieill. has adopted this name and genus, pi. Ixxxiv. 

 N.B. The Embebizoides of Temm. have become the Taeditoia of Swainson, 



and the Emb. oryzivora forms the genus Dolichontx of the same naturalist. 



(3) Add, the Capmore, Huff. ( Oriolus textor, Gm. ), Enl. 375 and 376 ; Fringilla 

 erythrocephala, Enl. 665; Vieill., Ois. eh., 28 ; the pretended Tangnra de mMlimbe, 



