49. FODDiA. 433 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head and under surface of body scarlet madagascariensis, p. 433. 



h. TJn-oat and breast yellow, the former orange ; 



forehead orange flavicans, p. 434. 



1. Foudia madagascariensis. 



Foulimene, Flacourt, Hist. Madaff. p. 163 (IGGl). 



Le Cardinal de Madagascar, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 11:2, pi. vi. fig. 2 (17G0) ; 

 Sffcmzin, Mem. Soc. Mus. Hist. Nat. Strasb. 1S40, p. 28. 



Lo.\ia madagascariensis, Litm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 300 (17G6) ; Less. 

 Traite, p. 446 (1831) ; Viiis. Voi/. Madaff. Ann. B, p. 144 (1865). 



Le Foudi Lehemene, Buff'. Hist. Nat. Ois. in. p. 49o (1775). 



Moineau de Madagascar, Dauhent. PI. Eiil. iv. pi. 134. fig. 2. 



Madagascar Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. p. 119 (17"83). 



Foudi, Vieill. Ois. Chant, p. 96, pi. 63 (1805). 



Fringilla madagascariensis, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 235 

 (1817). ' 



Ploceus madagascariensis, Hartl. Ann. ^ Mar/. N. H. (2) ii, p. 389 

 (1848) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 353 (1849) ; Lafr. Rev. et Mag. de 

 Zool. 1850, p. 324, pi. V. ; Schl. S,- Poll. Faune Madaq., Ois. p. 109 

 (1868); Gray, Hnnd-l. B. ii. p 45, no. 6620 (1870); Milne- 



Edicards and Grandid. Hist. Nat. Ois. p. 440, Atlas pi 177" 

 tig. 3, pis. 181, 182 (1885); Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 15. 



Ploceus ruber (nee Gm.), Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 353 (1849). 



Foudia madagascariensis, i/yj. Consp.x.^. 445(1850); ILirtl. Faun. 

 Madaff. p. 55 (18(il); Peichenb. Sinqv. p. G8, Taf xxxi. fig. 243 

 (1861) ; E. Newton, Ibis, 1861, p. 272, 1863, p. 350; Roch Sf E. 

 Newton, Ibis, 1862, p. 275 ; Scl. Ibis, 1864, p. 299 ; A. Newton, 

 P. Z. .S. 1865, p. 836 ; E. Nexvton, Ibis, 1867, pp. 346, 359 ; Gran- 

 did. Pev. et May. de Zool. 1867, p. 388 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 319 ; Hartl. Voy. Madaff. p. 212 (1877) ; Oud. Bidl. Soc. Philom. 

 1877, p. 101, 1878, p. 174 ; Sharpe, Rep. Voy. H.M.S. ' Alert: 

 p. 483 (1881). ' 



Calyphautria madagascariensis. Cab. in Von der Decken's Pels. iii. 

 p. 31 (1869) ; Finsch S,- Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 407 (1870). 



Ploceus (Foudia) madagascariensis, Milne-Edwards &• Oust. N. Arch. 

 Mus. (2) Ti. p. 267 (1884). 



Adult male. General coloi;r above briglit crimson, the feathers of 

 the mantle, back, and scapulars with black centres : lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform crimson ; lesser and median 

 coverts black, with crimson edges ; greater coverts black, edged 

 with whitish, slightly tinged with olive, the inner ones with crim- 

 son ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and (juills blackish, with olive 

 margins ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with olive, the centre ones 

 with rosy ; crown of head, occiput, and nape bright crimson ; hind 

 neck like the back, but less distinctly mottled with black ; lores and 

 feathers round eye black, extending in a patch above the ear-coverts ; 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and entire under surface of body 

 bright crimson ; under wing-covcrts and axillarics whitish, tinged 

 ■with olive, the latter with crimson ; quills below dusky, ashy along 



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