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This bird is fouucl in the vicinity of human habitations. 



The tolerably large nest is built from the most various 

 materials , as a kind of Selaginella , intermixed and lined 

 with soft stalks and panicles of grass. The aperture is 

 always on one side, like in the nests of Pyrenestes and 

 Spermestes. It generally sits in the fork of a small plum- 

 tree [Mangifera indica) , an orange-tree or the like , about 

 5 to 10 feet above the ground, and never in colonies to- 

 gether. The eggs , six in number , are pure white and 

 measure 1,5 cm. in length and 1,1 cm. in width. They 

 were collected in November, After their breeding time these 

 birds assemble , accompanied by their young ones , in large 

 flocks , visiting during the day rice-farms and grassy plains 

 and sleeping during the night, side by side, in reed-fields. 



Iris white , upper mandible bluish black , lower one 

 cyan-blue, feet black, soles whitish. 



Spermestes hie o lor. 



Amadina [Spermestes) bicolor, Fras. P. Z. S. 1842 , p. 145 ; 

 id. Zool. typ. pi. 50 , fig. 2; — Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 148. 



Hab. Liberia and Gold Coast. 



A pair , with their nest and eggs from Sofore Place ; 

 tolerably common in the Interior of Grand Cape Mount. 



This species likes still more human habitations than A. 

 fringilloides ^ as it builds its nest in the same way as the 

 first in plantains and trees middle in Negro villages, even 

 in the roofs of the houses. The nest contained 6 pure white 

 eggs of 1,4 cm. in length and 1 cm. in width, and was 

 collected in August. 



The habits of these birds are the same as those of the 

 former species. Principal food grass seeds. 



Iris black , bill blue , feet black. 



Corythaix m a c r o r h y n c h u s. 



Corythaix macrorhynchus ^ Fras. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 34; 

 — Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 157. 



Notes froxn the Leyden IVIuseuna, Vol. ~VII. 



