BRONZE-HOODED EEKGAXY 203 



pure white ; the under tail-covers have a few luira- 

 late lines. Tail black, very short and rounded; 

 bill and feet, black. 



Total length, 3; bill, ft; wings, 1^; tail be- 

 yond, T 7 o ; tarsus, ^ ; hind-toe and claw the same 



RED WINGED BENGALY. 



Pytilia phtenicoptera, SWAINS. 

 PLATE XVI. 



Cinereous ; body beneath, transversely and laterally banded 

 with whitish ; rump and margins of the wing and tail- 

 covers crimson. 



THE region whose ornithology we are now illus- 

 trating, has furnished us with what we at present 

 consider as four of the types of Amadina. The 

 first is represented by the little Estreldw^ with long 

 or at least cuneated tails ; the second is exemplified 

 by the great billed Amadina fasciata, where the 

 tail is always short, and the tarsus longer than the 

 hind-toe. The third or great footed division is 

 shewn in our Spermestes cucullata, and for the 

 fourth we adduce, as an example, the bird before 

 us. What we consider as the fifth type, belongs to 

 India ; it has a long pointed tail, and is represented 

 by the Fringilla sphecura of Temminck, a name 

 which neither its generic or specific sense can be 



