320 PLOCEID^. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat crimson, with white spots on the chest 



and sides. 



a'. Belly black amandava, p. 320. 



h'. Belly orange-yellow Jlavidiventris, p. 323. 



b. Throat yellow ; belly orange or yellow, with 



ashy bars on the sides ; a crimson eyebrow . . subjlava, p. 324. 



c. Throat pearly grey ; lores, eyebrow, ear-coverts, 



and cheeks orange meljioda, p. 325. 



1. Sporseginthus amandava. 



The Amaduvads, cock and hen, Alhin, Nat. Hist. B. iii. p. 72, pi. 77 



(1740). 

 The Amadavad, Edwards, Gleanings,^ iii. p. 301, pi. 355 (1774). 

 Le Bengali piquete, Briss. Ovn. iii. p. 206, pi. x. fig. 4 (1760) ; 



Daubent. PL Enl. iv. pi. 115. fig. 3 ; Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. 



p. 96 (1778). 

 Le Bengali brun, Briss. t. c. p. 205, pi. x. fig. 3; Daiibent. t. c. 



pi. 115. fig. 2. 

 Fringilla amandava, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 319 (1766) ; Vieill. N. 



Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 175 (1817). 

 Amadavade Finch, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 311 (1783). 

 Amandava, Vieill. Ois. Chant, pis. 1, 2 (1805, bad). 

 Fringilla punicea, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 160 (1821). 

 Linaria amandava, Sykes, P. Z. 8. 1832, p. 93. 

 Estrelda amandava, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 26 (1840) ; Blyth, 



J. A. 8. Beng. xiii. p. 949 (1844), xvi. p. 407 (1847) ; Gray, Gen. 



B. ii. p. 368 (1849) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 118 (1849) ; 



Bp. Comp. i. p. 459 (1850); Horsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 



E.I. Co. ii. p. 502 (1856) ; Jerd. B.lkd. ii.p. 359 (1863) ; Schomb. 



Ibis, 1864, p. 262 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 331, 1868, p. 173 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 61, no. 6710 (1870) ; Holdsio. P. Z. S. 



1872, p. 464 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1873, p. 209 ; id. Nests and Eggs 



Ind. B. p. 454 (1873) ; Ball, Sir. F. 1874, p. 421 ; Hume, t. c. 



p. 258 ; Oates, Str. F. 1875, p. 342 ; Butler, t. c. p. 496 ; Morgan, 



Ibis, 1875, p. 322; Fairh. Str. F. 1876, p. 261; Hume, Str. F. 



1877, p. 39 ; Ball, Str. F. 1878, p. 222 ; a-ip2)s, t. c. p. 294 ; Leqge, 



B. Ceylon, p. 622, note (1879) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 107 ; 



Butler, Cat. B. Sind Si-c. -p. 46 (1879); id. Cat. B. Bomb. Pres. 



p. 61 (1880) ; Hu7ne, Str. F. ix. p. 118 (1880); Beid, Str. F. x. 



p. 56 (1881) ; Davidson, t. c. p. 312 (1882) ; Davison, t. c. p. 403 



(1883); Murray, Vertebr. Faun. Sind, p. 182 (1884); Sioinh. 



<§• Barnes, Ibis, 1885, p. 129 ; Taylor, t. c. p. 463 (1887) ; Ternj, 



t. c. p. 478 (1887) ; Reid, Cat. Lucknoto Mus. p. 130 (1887). 

 Amadina punctata, Blyth, A?in. S,- Mag. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 166 (1843). 

 Estrelda punicea, Bp. Consp. i. p. 459 ; Horsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 



E. I. Co. ii. p. 503 (1856) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii.p. 51, no. 6711 



Amandava punicea, Reichenb. t. c, p. 17 (1861). 



Adult male in full plumage. General colour above crimson, with 

 dull ashy bases to the feathers and crimson edges ; on the back 



