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95 



110. LoNCHURA Chekt. Lonch. pcdUde cinnamomeo-brunnea ; cor- 



pore stibtiis uropyg'ioque albis ; remigibus rectricibusęue inteme 



brunneis. 



Foem. coloribus tninils intensis. 



Irides intensė rufo-brunneaB. Longitudo corporis 5f unc, 

 caud(JB 2. 

 t Tail lanceolate ; centrai feathers longer than the ręst, and ending 

 in a point. Sexes alike. These birds live in small families. Co- 

 lonel Sykes has frequently found them in possession of tlie 

 Ae&erieA nešis o^ the Ploceus Phiiippensis ; but their own nešt 

 is a hoUovv ball of grass. Ten vvhite eggs, not much larger 

 than peas, vvere found in a nešt. The cry of the bird is cheet, 

 cheet, cheet, uttered simultaneously by flocks in flight. 



111. Lonchura leuconota. Fringiila leuconota, Temm, Gros-hec leu- 



conote, PI. Col. 500. fig. 1. 

 Found only in the Ghauts. Length 4tV inches, inclusive of tail 

 lA incli. Sexes alike. Grass seeds only found in the stomach. 



Genus Passer, Auct. 



112. Passer domesticus, Briss. Fringilla domesiica, Linn, 



On submitting the Indian Sparrotu, malė and female, to a rigid 

 comparison with Sparrotvs shot in the Regent's Park, they vvere 

 found to be absolutely identical. 



Fam. Sturnidce, Vigors. — Genus Pastor, Temtn. 



113. Pastor tristis, Temm. Gracida tristis,Juath. 



The irides are red brown, and remarkable for being studded on 

 the external margin with regularly arranged yellowish-white 

 specks. Sexes alike: omnivorous: quarrelsome, noisy. Length 

 llA inches, inclusive of tail of 3-rV- 



114. Pastor Mahrattensis. Past. supra griseo-niger, remigibus 



cauddque saturatioribiis ; capite genisque atris ; corpore subtus 



subrujescenti-griseo ; crisso pallidiori, plumis albo marginatis. 



Rostrum pedesąae flavi. Irides pallidė griseae. Longitudo 



corporis 9f unc, caudce 2xV. 



Sexes alike. Found only in the Ghauts. Stony fruit in the sto- 



machs of three birds. Resembles Past. tristis, but is a size 



less, possesses no crest, and has gray irides. 



115. Pastor roseus, Temm. Tnrdus roseus, Linn. 

 Irides intense red brown. Tongue bifid and fringed ; not quite 



so much so as Hį/psipetes Ganeesa. These birds darken the air 

 by their numbers at the peiiod ęf the ripening of the bread 

 grains, Andropogon Sorghum, and Panicum spicatum, in Dukhun, 

 in December. Colonel Sykes has shot forty or fifty at a shot. 

 They prove a calamity to the husbandman, as they are as de- 

 structive as locusts, and not much less numerous. 



116. Pastor Pagodarum, Temm. Turdus Pagodariim, Gmel. Gra- 

 cula Pagodarum, Shaw, vol. 7. p. ^Tl. Le Martin Brame, Le 

 Vaiil., Ois. d'Afr. pi. 95. tom. 2. 



Irides greenish vvhite. Length 8,^ inches, inclusive of tail of Ž-Ą- 



