346 FRINGILLID^. 



Gen. Erythrura. Swains. 

 General characters as in Amadina ; plumage green and crimson. 



886. Erythrura prasi.na, Sparrm., Salvad, Ucc. Bom. p. 268 ; 



Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 405 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 107^ Oates, B. Br. 

 Burm. \. p. 370. Fringilla prasina, Sparrm., Mus. Carls, t. 72, 73. The 

 GREEN MUNIA. 



Forehead, cheeks, feathers round the eye, the ear coverts, chin and throat 

 blue ; top of head, sides of neck, back, wing coverts and tertiaries green ; 

 rump, upper tail coverts and middle pair of tail feathers crimson ; other 

 feathers of the tail brown ; abdomen crimson ; sides of body, vent and under 

 tail coverts buff ; primaries and secondaries brown, edged with green. 



The female has the whole upper plumage green, except the tail coverts and 

 central tail feathers, which are red but duller than in the male ; lower plumage 

 fulvous, tinged with green on the breast, throat and flanks. (Dates.) 



Young birds have the crimson of the upper parts replaced by yellow, and 

 the abdomen is gamboge yellow. Legs, feet and claws fleshy pink ; bill 

 black ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 6 inches; wing 2-3 j tail 275; tarsus 0-3; bill from gape 0*58. 



Hab. Burmah, in the extreme south of Tenasserim, where it is a visitor 

 during the rice harvest. It extends to Sumatra, Java and Borneo. Davison says 

 he found it associated with flocks of Amadina acuticauda. 



Gen. Estrilfla. Swains. 

 Bill not so broad, nor as high as in Munia, and more compressed. 



887. Estrilda punicea (Bors/.) t Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 371. 

 Fringilla punicea, Horsf., Trans. Linn. Socy. xiii. p. 160. Estrilda flavidi- 

 ventris, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 495 ; War dlaw- Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 461 ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 107 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 232. Estrilda amandava 

 (Lin.), Blyth, B. Burm. p. 93; Oates, Str. F. iii. p. 342. HORSFIELD'S 

 WAX-BILL. 



Sides of the face, chin, throat, breast and sides of neck crimson, the two 

 latter speckled with white ; sides of the body pale red, much spotted with 

 vrhite ; belly and vent yellowish red ; under tail coverts variable. In some the 

 centres of the feathers are whitish tinged with pink, the edges blackish 

 brown and the tips maroon ; in others the feathers are uniform blackish brown ; 

 forehead and top of head greenish, each feather broadly tipped with crimson ; 

 upper surface of the body pale greenish, washed with red ; rump with short 

 transverse lines or elongated spots of white ; upper tail coverts crimson, spotted 

 with white ; tail black, the outer four pairs of feathers tipped with white ; 

 upper series of small wing coverts plain brown ; the second and third series 

 brown, each feather with a terminal spot of white ; quills plain brown, the 

 tertiaries with a terminal spot of white. (Oates.) 



