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38. EKYTHETIKA. 381 



1. Erythrura prasina. 



Le Verdier de Java, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 193, pi. vii. fig. 4 (1760). 

 Lb Quadricolor, Buf. Hkt. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 407 (1775). 

 Le ToLipet bleu, Month. His/. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 170 (1778). 

 Gros-bec de Java, Daubent. Pi. Enl. iv. pi. 101. fig. 2. 

 Red-rumped Buutiug, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. p. '20S (1783). 

 Blue-faced Bimting, Lath. Gen. Si/n.. ii. pt. i. p. 209 (1783). 

 Loxia prasiaa, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, ii. pis. 72, 73 (1788) ; Raffles, 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 314 (1820) ; Swidev. Crit. om Sparrm. 

 p. 12 (1857). 

 Emberiza cyanopis, Gm. Si/st. Nat. p. 886 (1788) . 

 Emberiza quadricolor, Grn. Si/st. Nat. p. 886 (1788). 

 Coccothraustes prasiua, Vieill. N. Diet. (THist. Nat. xiii. p. 537 



(1817). 

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

 FringiUa spliecura, Tenim. PI. Col. iii. pi. 96. figs. 1-3 (1824). 

 Loncbm-a quadricolor, Si/kes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 94. 

 Erytbrura viiidis, Swaiiis. Class. B. ii. p. 280 (1837). 

 Erytbriua prasiua, Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 118 (1849). 

 Amadina prasiua, Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 370 (1840) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 58, no. 6805 (1870). 

 Erytbrura prasiua, Bp. Consp. Ad. p. 457 (1850) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, 

 Cat. B. E. 1. Co. Mus. ii. p. 503 ( 1856) ; Hartl. P. Z. S. 1858, 

 p. 461 ; Beichenh. Sinqo. p. 34, Taf. xi. figs. 99-101 (1861) ; Salvad. 

 Ucc. Born. p. 268 '(1874) ; Hume, Sir. F. 1875, p. 323; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 50 ; Hume ^- Damson, Str. F. vi. p. 405 (1878) ; 

 Nicholson, Ibis, 1879, p. 170 ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 262 ; Hume, Str. F. 

 viii. pp. 67, 107, ix. p. 121 (1881); Scl. Ibis, 1881, p. 545; 

 Nicholson, Ibis, 1882, p. 63 ; Vorderm. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. 

 xliii. p. 106 (1884), xlvi. p. 234 (1887) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1889, p. 435. 



Adult male. General colour above grass-green, the upper tail- 

 coverts scarlet ; centre tail-feathers dull crimson, the remainder 

 blackish, edged with crimson and tipped with olive ; wing-coverts 

 and inner secondaries dull grass-green, the remainder blackish, 

 edged with grass-green, the primaries with olive-yellow ; head green 

 like the back, as also the sides of the neck ; the forehead, sides of 

 face, ear-coverts, and throat blue ; lores and feathers at base of bill 

 black ; remainder of under surface of body from the lower throat 

 downwards deep cinnamon-buif ; centre of breast and abdomen 

 scarlet ; under wing-coverts like the flanks ; quiUs dusky below, 

 ashy along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5-5 inches, 

 culmeu 0-55, wing 2-3, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but much duller in colour 

 and with a shorter tail ; the blue not being so pronounced on the 

 face and throat and shading off into ochreous brown on the fore 

 neck ; the scarlet on the underparts reduced to a small patch in the 

 centre of the breast. Total length 4'o inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-3, 

 tail 1-7, tarsiis O'oo. 



Young. Everywhere much duller in colour than the adults, and 

 having a tinge of saffron-yellow on the rump ; no blue on the fore- 

 head and only a slight tinge of blue on the face, which is otherwise 

 green ; throat pale smoky brown with an ashy-greenish shade, the 



