180 FRINGILLID^. 



Pastor roseus, Lin.; Gould. Birch of Eur ip\. 212; Nairn, vogt. 

 t. 63 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 333, No. 690 ; Blf. East. Persia, ii. p. 267 ; 

 Str. F. i. 208; iii. 208, 495; Murray, Hdbk., Zool, ^x., Sind, p. 176. 

 Pastor peguanus, Less. Pastor suratensis et seleucus, Chn. Syst. Nat.; 

 Gray, Oat. B. Br. Mas. — The Kose-coloured Pastor. 



Head, crest, crown, neck on the back and nape black, glossed with 

 bluisli purple; cbin and throat black ; entire back, breast, rump and 

 upper tail-coverts pale salmon or delicate rose colour ; wing-coverts 

 black, the lesser series margined with grey, and the greater series 

 glossy black with purple reflections ; primaries dark brown, tinged with 

 greenish ; some of the secondaries glossy black, also with green reflec- 

 tions, and others only so on the outer web ; tail greenish black ; under 

 tail-coverts black ; bill yellowish rose ; legs yellowish brown ; irides 

 deep brown. 



Length. — 9 to 9"5 inches, wing 5'25, tail 3, bill at front 08. 



Hah. — S. E. Europe, Asia Minor, India, Ceylon, Assam, Burraah 

 and Pegu. A winter visitant in most parts of India; arrives in Sind 

 about the beginning of April in large flocks; in the Punjab and N. W. 

 Provinces in August. Occurs also as a migrant in Beloochistan, Persia, 

 Afghanistan and Eastern Turkistan. 



Family, FRINGILLID^. 



Small birds with short, thick, conic bills, mostly angular at base; 

 wings usually long ; tarsi moderate. 



Sub-Family, PLOCEIN^,— Weaver Birds. 



Bill thick at base, with the keel projecting on the forehead and 

 arched to the tip; wings rounded; Ist quill very short; tarsi and toes 

 strong, scutate; hind toe long and strong. 



Gen. Ploceus. — Guv. 



Characters same as those of Sub-Pamily ; 3rd to oth quills longest, 

 first very short ; tertials nearly as long as the quills. 



Ploceus phillipinus, Lin. Syst. Nat. i. 305 ; D'Auh. P. E. 185, 

 2; lieich. Sing. t. 36, 283. Ploceus phillipensis, Briss. Orn. iii. 232, 

 pi. xii. f. i. Ploceus maculata, P. L. S^ Mull. Supi^L 150; ex P. E. ; 

 Hume, Str, F. vi. 399. Ploceus baya (Blyth) apiid. Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 

 843, No. 694; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., ^-c, Sind, p. 176.— The Common 

 Weaver Bird. 



Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. — Forehead, crown, sides of the 

 neck and breast bright yellow ; lores, sides of the face, ear-coverts, 

 ehin and throat dull brown, paler on the chin; back brown, the feathers 

 with yellow edgings; rump paler brown, edged lighter ; upper tail-coverts 

 a dirty buff colour or rufous white; wing-coverts dull brown, the 

 greater series and the primary coverts narrowly edged with greyish 

 white; primaries, secondaries and tertiaries dull brown, the primaries 

 with a narrow edging of pale yellow on their outer webs, also th& 

 secondaries ; tertiaries broadly edged yellowish white; tail dull brown, 

 the feathers faintly and narrowly edged with yellowish green ; abdomen. 



