148 PADDA ORYZIVORA 
Genus IV. PADDA. 
Bill pink, rather large and stout ; nostrils hidden by the frontal feathers. 
Wing rounded, secondaries reaching to the tip; primaries 2, 3 and 4 longest 
and broader than in Munia, Hodgs., to which genusit is nearly allied. Tarsi 
and feet pink and of moderate size. 
Type. 
Padda, Reichenb. Syst. Nat. pl. 76, fig. 6 (1850) . . . . P. orizivora. 
Oryzornis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 174 (1851). . . . . . P. orizivora. 
The genus is represented in the Ethiopian region by the Java Sparrow, 
an introduced bird which has established itself in Tropical Africa and the 
islands of Seychelles, Mauritius and St. Helena. 
Padda oryzivora. 
Loxia oryzivora, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 302 (1766) Asia. 
Padda oryzivora, Melliss, Ibis, 1870, p. 100 St. Helena. 
Munia oryzivora, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 328 (1890) ; Hartl. Abhandl. 
nat. Ver. Brem. 1891, p. 19 Ngurw; Finn, Ibis, 1892, p. 226 
Zanzibar ; Reichen. Vég. D. O. Afr. p. 183 (1894) Ngurw ; Butler, 
Foreign Finches in Captivity, p. 248, pl. 44 (1894); Shelley, B. Afr. 
I. No. 362 (1896) ; Nehrkorn, Kat. Hiers. p. 126 (1899) egg ; Neum. 
J. f. O. 1900, p. 283 Zanzibar, Tanga, Usegua. 
Oryzornis oryzivora, Reichen. J. f. O. 1889, p. 283 Zanzibar. 
? Loxia sanguinirostris, Linn. 8. N. (x.) p. 173 (1758); id. (xii.) 1. p. 303 
(1766) Asia. 
Loxia javensis, Gm. 8. N. i. p. 850 (1788). 
Emberiza calfat, Gm. ¢. c. p. 889. 
Adult. Upper half of the head, chin and upper throat black, with a 
large patch of pure white on the sides of the head, extending over the 
cheeks and ear-coverts and margined behind by a streak of black from the 
nape to the middle throat ; neck, back, greater portion of wings and front 
of chest lavender grey ; rump, upper tail-coverts and tail black; primary- 
covert, primaries and wing-lining dusky brown, with the inner edges of the 
quills and the coverts white ; lower breast mauve pink, fading into white on 
the under tail-coverts. ‘Iris brown; bill and feet pink.’”’ ‘Total length 5:6 
inches, culmen 0°65, wing 2°65, tail 2:0, tarsus 0°7. g,18.9.75. Singa- 
pore (W. Davison). 
