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Irides white. Head and neck blackish brown interspersed with 

 a few white spots; cheeks white, more or less streaked. Upper 

 jiarts Hver-brown, tinged with grey. Wings and tail with a 

 slight greenish gloss ; the foremost secondaries broadly edged 

 with white, the rest and some of the quills but slightly ; the tail- 

 feathers are extensively edged with white, and all, except the 

 two central, more or less deeply marked with white on the apical 

 portion of the inner web. Breast and flanks bluish grey. Under 

 wing-coverts, belly, pygial band, and under tail-coverts pure 

 white. The females are browner, and have little or no grey on 

 them. 



85. COCCOTHRAUSTES MELANURUS (Guicl.). 



Found here the winter through, but leaves us before summer. 

 Breeds in Shanghai. 



86. MuNiA MALACCA (Linn.). 

 Young birds are met with in autumn. 



87. Muni A Molucca (Linn.). 



Found in the neighbourhood ; scarce. Common at Shanghai 

 during summer. 



88. MuNIA RUBRONIGRA, Blyth. 

 Scarce. 



89. Oryzornis oryzivora (Linn.). 



Flocks occasionally met with during winter and spring. 



90. Ligurinus sinicus (Linn.). 



A small goldfinch-like bird with a greenfinch's bill ; not 

 uncommon on the hills ; has a pretty, tinkling call-note. 



91. Passer montanus (Linn.). 



Common everywhere about houses. Resembles in habits the 

 house-sparrow, P. domesticus (Linn.). 



92. Emberiza fucata, Pall. 



Met with among standing grain during winter, but difficult 

 to procure, from its habit of dropping under cover of the grain, 

 and seldom perching in exposed places. 



93. Emberiza pusilla. Pall. 

 Occasional m flocks during winter. 



