328 PLOCEIDiE. 



e'" . No black on throat, wlncli is grej' or 

 ■whitish. 

 i^. Head ashy ; back dark chocolate- 

 brown ; breast smoky brown ; abdo- 

 men black caniceps, p. 345. 



k\ Head whitish; back pale chestnut; 

 throat, breast, and abdomen isabel- 



line or light tawny buff Jfaviprymna, p. 345. 



d' . Under tail-coverts chestnut; upper tail- 

 coverts maroon ; tail golden yellow ; head 

 and throat wliitish ; back brown ; breast 



and abdomen pale reddish pallida, p. 346. 



«'. Under tail-coverts buffy white ; throat deep 

 chestnut ; sides of body ocellated with 



black and white spots jninctuhifa and allies, 



c. Legs pale ; upper tail-coverts and tail dusky [pp. 340-352. 



blackish; head drab-grey like the hack ; sides 

 of face and throat black ; fore neck and chest 

 white, subterminally barred with black .... cahanisi, p. 353. 



1. Miinia oryzivora. 



The Cock Padda or Eice bird, Edwards, Xat. Eigt. B. i. p. 4], 



pi. 41 (1743j. 

 Le Gros-laee cendr^ de la Chine, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 244, pi. xi. fig. 4 



(1766). 

 Loxia orvzivora, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 302 (1766) ; Tieill. Ois. Chant. 



p. 94, pi. Ixi. (1805); liaffl. Trans. Linn. Sue. xiii. p. 314 (1820) ; 



Mahn ^ Kiister, Vog. aus Asien etc. Lief. x. Taf. 3 (1821) ; Schl. Sf 



Full. Faun. Madacj , Ois. p. 154 (1868). 

 Le Padda ou I'Oiseau de riz, Bi/f. Hist. Kat. Ois. iii. p. 463 (1 775). 

 Le Calfat, Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 371 (1778 j. 

 Grosbec de la Chine, Daubeiit. PL Enl. iv. pi. 152. fig. 1. 

 Java Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. p. 129 (1783). 

 l!ed-eyed Bunting, Lath. t. c. p. 210 (1783). 

 Emberiza calfat, Gni. Syst. Nat. i. p. 887 (1788). 

 Loxia javensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 850 (1788) ; Sparrm. Mus. Cnrls. 



fasc. iv. pi. 89 (17f<9). 

 Coccothraustes oryzivora, Vieill. N. Diet. (Tllist. Nat. xiii. p. 545 



(1817). 

 Fringilla orvzivora, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 161 (1820) ; 



Swains. Zool. lUustr. iii. pi. 156 (1822-23). 

 Amadina orvzivora, StricM. P. Z. S. 1842, p. 167 ; Blyth, J. A. S. 



B. XV. p'285 (1846); id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 118 (184V0 ; 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 309 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 65, no. 6776 



(1870) ; Hume, Str. F. viii. pp. 67, 107 (1879). 

 Munia orvzivora, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 451 (1850) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1861, 



p. 45 ; 'F. Newton, t. c. p. 115; Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 219; Hartl. 



P.Z.S. 1867, p. 826; id. Vog. Madag. p. 404 (1877); Shelky, 



Ibis, 1886, p. 312 ; Bartlett, Monoyr. Weaver-B. pt. i. (1888). 

 Oryzornis oryzivora. Cab. Mus. Hein, i. p. 174 (18oOj ; id. in Von der 



Decken's Peis. iii. p. SO (18l.9j ; Finsch i^- Hartl. Tog. Ostafr. 



p. 483 (1870) ; Shcape, Cat. Afr. B. p. 68 (1871). 

 Padda orvzivora, Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. F.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 504 



(1850); 3Ioore, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 443; Peiehenh. Sinyv. p. 42, 



pi. XV. figs. 135-139 (1861) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 486 : Melliss, 



