RED- WINGED BENGALY. 205 



spots on the under tail-covers. Tail, blackish ; the 

 feathers margined with crimson ; rump and upper 

 covers entirely crimson. 



Total length, 4 inches ; hill, -/Q ; wings, 2 T 2 ^ ; 

 tail beyond, ; from the base, 1 T 7 Q ; tarsus, ^ ; 

 hind-toe and claw, T 4 ; middle ditto, J J. 



With this bird we terminate the series of the 

 Plodance or weavers ; the few other finches we 

 shall now describe, belong to the bull-finches, Py- 

 rulince* and the sparrows or true finches (Yringil- 

 linoe). 



