MUNIA MAJA. 

 THE WHITE-HEADED MUNIA. 



PLATE VII. (Fig. 3). 



The Malacca Grosbeak, Edwards, Gleanings, ii. p. 202, pi. 306, fig. 1 



(1760). 

 Alaia sinensis, Briss. Ornith. iii. p. 212, pi. ix. fig. 2 (1760). 

 La Maia dela Chine, Briss. Ornith. vi. suppl. p. 76 (1760). 

 Maia sinensis, Briss. Syn. Meth. i. p. 365 (1763). 

 White-headed Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. p. 151 (1783). 

 White-headed Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Hist. Birds, v. p. 26i (1822). 

 Majan, Bodd, Tabl. d. pi. Enl. 109, 1 (1783). - 

 La Maja de la Chine, Buff. PI. Enl. 109, fig. 1 (1777). 

 Majaji, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 107, pi. 3, 1. f. (1778). 

 Le Majan, Vieill. Ois. Chant, p. 87, pi. Ivi. (1805). 

 Loxia maja, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 301 (1766); Miill. VoUst. Natur- 



syst. iii. p. 549 (1773); Gmel. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 849 (1788) ; Lath. 



Ind. Ornith. i. p. 391 (1790); Daud. Traite d' Ornith. ii. p. 441 



(1800) ; Shaw, Gen. ZooL Lx. p. 301 (1815) ; Vieill. Nouv. Diet. 



xii. p. 236 (1817) ; Griff. Cuv. Anim. Kingd. ii. p. 152 (1829). 

 Fringilla waja, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 1822, p. 162 ; Vieill. 



Tabl. Encycl. Meth. iii. p. 975 (1823) ; Licht. Doubl. Mus. Berol. 



pp. 26, 89 (1823). 

 Loxia leucocephala. Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 1822, p. 314. 

 Coccothraustes major, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 87 (1824). 

 Amadina maja, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xiii. 1844, p. 949, xiv. 



1845, p. 554, XV. 1846, pp. 36, 285 ; Gray et Mitch. Gen. Birds, ii. 



p. 370 (1849) ; Eyton, Cat. Birds, p. 253 (1856) ; Gray, Hand-List 



Birds, ii. p. 54 (1870). 



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