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Amadina Icucocephala, Gray et Mitch. Gen. Birds, ii. p. 370 (18-19). 



3Tu7i{a mqja, Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. A. S. B. p. 116 (1849) ; Bonap. 

 Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 451 (1851) ; Horsf. et Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. 

 E. Ind. Comp. ii. p. 505 (1856-8) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, 

 p. 444 ; Reichb. Singvogel, p. 40, pi. xiv. fig. 130, pi. xv. figs. 131, 

 132 (1861); Walden, Ibis, 1871, p. 177; Salvadori, Uccelli di 

 Borneo, p. 264 (1874) ; Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 318 ; Salvadori, Ann. 

 Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. 1879, p. 73 ; Salvin, Cat. Coll. Birds Strickl. 

 p. 251 (1882) ; Scl. Vert. Anim. Gard. Zool. Soc. p. 239 (1883). 



Dermophrys maja, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 174 (1851). 



Munia major, Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 462. 



Spermestes maja, Russ, Stubenvogel, p. 163 (1879). 



Figures. Edwards, Gleanings, ii. pi. 306, fig. 1. Brisson, 

 Ornith. iii. pi. ix. fig. 2. Jiuff'on, PI. Enl. 109, fig. 1. Vieill. 

 Ois. Chant, pi. Ivi. Reichb. Smgvogel, pi. xiv, fig. 130, pi. 

 XV. figs. 131, 132. 



Dutch. Nonnetje. 



English. Malacca Grosbeak. White-headed Grosbeak. The Majan or 

 Maja Finch. White-headed Finch. Nun. White-headed Nun. 



French. Le Majan. La Maja de la Chine. Le Gros-bec a tete blanche. 

 La Nonnette a tete blanche. Capucin >) trfe blanche. Mahian a tete 

 blanche. Le Gros-bec de Malacca. 



German. Die weisskiipjige Maja. Nonne. Nonuenvogel. Nonnenjink. 

 Nonneniccberfink. Der Weisskopf. Die weisskijpjige Nonnen-Ama- 

 dine. 



Native Names. Pipit, Sumatra {Raffles). Pefap Whobun, Malav 

 (Blyth). 



Habitat. Malacca and Sumatra. No doubt introduced mto India, China, 

 and many of the islands in the Malayan Archipelago. 



Male. Head creamy white, tinged with buff on tlie nape and throat ; back and wings dark 

 cinnamon-brown ; primaries, secondaries, and tail-featliers dark brown on the inner 

 webs; rump and upper tail-coverts ghstening deep red-brown ; centre tail-feathers and 

 outer edges of the rest glistening dark ferruginous; lower part of throat and chest ashy- 



