494 PLOCEID^. 



Loxia bengalensis, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 305 (176G). 



Grosbec des Indes, Danhent. PL Enl. iv. pi. 308. fig-. 2. 



L'Orchef, Biiff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. ]>. 466 (1775). 



Loxia aurata, P. L. S. Miill. Syst. Nat, Stippl. p. 152 (1776) ; Cass. 



Proc. Philad. Acad. 1864, p." 2-52. 

 Bengal Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. p. 133 (1783). 

 Loxia regina, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 24 (1783). 

 Coccothriiustes cbrysomelas, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist, Nat. xiii. p. 536 



(1817). 

 rioceus aureus, Less. Traite, p. 435 (1831). 

 Euplectes albirostris, Swains. A71. in Menay. p. 309 (1837). 

 Ploceus flavigiila, Hodys. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, pi. 276. 



fig. 4 (no. 451) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844). 

 Euplectes mauvar (nee Hursf.), Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 25 (1840) ; 



Blyth, J. A.'S. Bene/, xi. p. 872 (1842). 

 Ploceus bengaleusis, B/i/th, J. A. S. Bentf. xiii. p. 945 (1844) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. ii. p. 352 (1849) ; Blyth. Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 115 



(1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 443 (18.j0) ; ^/«?i/. 7/«s, 1870, p. 469 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 44, no. 6615 (1870) ; Godiuin-Austen, J. 



A. S. Beny. xxiix. p. 271 (1870) ; Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 209; 



Blyth ^- Wald. B. Bwm. p. 92 (1875); Butler, Str. F. 1877, 



p. 210; Ball, t. c. p. 418; id. Str. F. vii. p. 222 (1878) ; Cripps, 



t. c. p. 293 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind cSr. p. 45 (1879) ; Hume, Sir. F. 



Tiii. p. 107 (1879), ix. p. 257 (1880); Murray, Vertehr. Faun. 



Sind, p. 181 (1881) ; Oafes, Handb. B. Br. Burm. i. p. 361 (1883) ; 



Smnh. iy Barnes, Ibis, 1885, p. 128; Beichen. Zool. Jahrb. i. p. 160 



(1886) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 270 (1888). 

 Euplectes manyar (nee Horsf.), Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 134 



(1844); Gray, Cat. Mamm. SfC. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 105 (1846). 

 Nelicurvius beugalensis, Eeichenb. Sinyv. p. 75, Taf. xxxiii. fig. 262 



(1861). 



Adult male. Similar to P. haya, but differing in the total 

 absence of yellow on the breast, and by the black band across the 

 chest ; the throat sooty blackish : " bill pearly white ; legs flesh- 

 colour ; iris light brown " (E. TF. Oates). Total length 4*5 inches, 

 culmen 0-7, wing 2-75, tail 1"45, tarsus 0-8. 



Great variation takes place in the colour of the sides of face and 

 throat, which are sometimes quite white, and at others so black as 

 scarcely to be distinguished from the black neck, collar, or hind 

 neck. 



Adult female. Not very different from the winter-plumaged male, 

 when adult, but having the black band across the chest less strongly 

 developed, and the yellow of the eyebrow and sides of neck not 

 quite so bright : " upper mandible light brown, the lower one 

 whitish horny with a pinky-bluish tinge ; feet fleshy pink ; iris 

 brown" (A. 0. Hume). Total length 5-3 inches, culmeu 0-55, 

 wing 2-7, tail 1-G, tarsus GOo. 



Young. Like the adult female, but much browner, especially on 

 the head, which is washed with yellow ; ear-coverts and sides of 

 face ashy grey, with a broad black streak along the upper part of 

 the former, and a less distinct line along the inner margin ; cheeks 

 and throat yellow, but without a sign of the black malar stripe ; 



