SINENSIS. 329 



long pendent feathers over the 

 breaft, the tail is black, the legs 

 green, This bird haunts the rice 

 grounds, and lives on it. 



6. Malacca. 



7. Sanguinirojlris, Amoen. Acad. 4. 

 p. 243. 



8. cyanea. Amcen. Acad. 4. p. 244. 



9. fufca. ibid. 



Tanagra 1. militarise Amcen. Acad, 4. p. 241^ 

 Fringilla 1. Melba. 



2, Sinica. 



3, Chinefe fparrows. Edw. 43. 



4, white breaded Chinefe fparrows* 

 Edw. 355. 



An Fringilla? a fmall bird; the 

 head, back, coverts of the wings 

 are purple ; the prime quill fea- 

 thers and tail of a fine blue, the 

 fecondary quill feathers are green; 

 the whole underfide yellow, on 

 the ears is a white fpot. 

 Another like the former, only the 

 back and tail are purple. 



Another with a green head, pur- 

 ple breaft, and the tail of the 

 fame colour. 



A fourth 



