568 FRINGILLIDA 



56. MELOPHUS. w 



Type. 



Melophus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 290 (1837). M. melanicterus. 



Head of Melophus melanicterus. 

 Range. Coincident with that of the species. 



1. Melophus melanicterus. 



Moineau de Macao, Daubent. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 224. fig. 1 ; Month. 



Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 486 (1775). 

 Black and Orange Finch, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 268 (1783). 

 Fringilla melanictera, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 910 (1788). 

 Emberiza erythroptera, Jard. Sf Selby, III. Orn. pi. 132 (1825-39). 

 Emberiza cristata, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35; Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, 



p. 94 ; Blyth, J. A. S. Peng. xi. p. 602 (1842). 

 Emberiza lathami, J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 2 (1831) ; Blyth, J. A. 



S. Beng. xiii. p. 057 (1844). 

 Emberiza subcristata, SyJces, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 93. 

 Emberiza nipalensis, Hodgs. Asiat. Research, xix. p. 157 (1836) ; 



id. Icon, ined., Passeres, pi. 289. figs. 1, 2 (nos. 341-42); id. in 



Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844). 

 Melophus erythropterus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 290 (1837). 

 Euspiza lathami, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 376 (1844) ; id. Cat. Mamm. 



etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 107 (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mns. As. 



Soc. p. 129 (1849). 

 Melophus melanicterus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 470 (1850) ; Horsf. Sf Moore, 



Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 489 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 381 



(18631 ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 387 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. 



B. p. '467 (1873) ; id, Str. F. 1873, p. 47 ; Cock Sf Marsh, t, c. 



p. 357; Godioin-Aust. J. A. S. Bene/, xliii. p. 171 (1874); Blyth 



| Wald. B. Burm. p. 95 (1875) ; Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 254 ; 



Butler, t. c. p. 498 ; id. Str. F. 1876, p. 37 ; Hume, t, c. p. 224 ; 



Fairb. t, c. p. 261 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 4(52 ; David, 



Sf Oust. Ois. Chine,]). 333 (1877); Anderson, Zool. Exped.Yun-nan, 



Aves, p. 604 (1878) ; Hume $ Davis. Str. F. 1878, p. 409 ; Davids. 



Sf Wenden, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 95; Murray, t. c. p. 113; 



Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 107 ; Scully, t. c. p. 334 ; Butler, Cat. B. 



Sind etc. p. 48 (1879) ; id. Str. F. 1880, p. 17 ; id. Cat, B. S. 



Bomb. Pres. p. 03 (1880) ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 357 (1883); 



Murray, Vertebr. Faun. Sind, p. 189 (1884). 

 Euspiza melanictera, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 112, no. 7682 (1870). 



Adult male in brceding-phmiarfe. General colour above glossy 

 blue-black, the head with crest-feathers 1-05 inch long ; wing- 

 coverts and quills bright chestnut, with black margins to the lesser 



