268 BIRDS. 



Emb. nivalis, L.; Bruant de neige; Enl. 511; Naum. 106 and 

 107. (The Snow Bunting). Known by a broad longitudinal white 

 band on the wing. A northern bird, which becomes nearly all white 

 in winter*. To this we should add, 



Fring. laponica, Gm., or calcarata, Pall. Fr. Tr, III., pi. 1, 1; 

 Grand Montain oi BufF. ; Naum. 108. (The Lapland Bunting). 

 Spotted with black, on a fawn-coloured ground, the throat and upper 

 part of the breast of the male, black. Inhabits the same countries 

 as the preceding ; is sometimes, but rarely, seen in France during 

 the winter. 



Fringilla, Lin. 



The Sparrows have a conical bill, more or less thick at base ; but its 

 commissure is not angular. They feed generally on grain, and are, for the 

 most part, voracious and noxious. We subdivide them as follows : — 



PLOCEusf, Cuv. 



The Weavers are provided with such a large bill, that they have been 

 partly classed with the Cassici; but its straight commissure distinguishes 

 them from the latter. The upper mandible is moreover slightly convex. 

 They are found in both worlds, and most of those in the eastern con- 

 tinent are very skilful in the construction of their nest, which they form 

 of intertwined blades of grass, from which circumstances they receive 

 their name. Such is 



Loxia phiUppini,lj. ; Toucnam-Courvi des Philippines ; Enl. 135. 

 YeUow, spotted with brown; black throat. Its nest, which is a sus- 

 pended sphere, is pierced by a vertical canal, opening underneath, 

 and communicating with a cavity on the side in which the young ones 

 are lodged :};. 

 Some of them form a single mass of a great number of individual nests, 

 which contains several distinct apartments. Such is 



Loxia socia, Lath.; Paters. Voy. pi. xix. (The Republican). 

 An olive brown; yellowish beneath; head and quills brown or 

 blackish. 

 Among those of the western continent, we may remark, 



Oriolus niger, Or. oryzivorus, Corvus surinamensis, Gm. ; Ma7i- 



* The Emb. montana, and the Emh. mustelina, are merely different states of the 

 Snow Bunting. 



t Plokiis, Weaver, — Vieill. has adopted this name and genus, Gal. pi. Ixxxiv. 



N. B. The Emeerizoides of Temm. have become the Tardivola of Swainson, 

 and the Emb. oryzivora forms the genus Dolichonyx of the same naturalist. 



X Add, the Capmore, Buff. (Oriolus textor, Gm.), Enl. 375 and 376;— FringiUa ery- 

 throcephala, Enl. 665, Vieill. Ois. eh. 28; — the pretended Tangara de malimbe, Daud. 

 An. Mus. I, p. 148 pi. x, or Malimbe huppe, Vieill. Ois. ch. 42 and 43; — the Malimbi'. 

 orange. Id. 44; — Malimbe a gorge noir. Id. 45; — the Tisserin a front d'or {Ploc. auri- 

 frons, Tem. Col. 175, 176); — the Baglafecht {Lax. abyssinica);—ih.e. Nelicourvi {Lo.v. 

 petisilis), Sonn. Voy. II, pi. cix; — the iVorabee {Fring. abyssinica, Gm.), Vieill. Ois. 

 ch. 28; — Fring. eryihrocephala, Gm.; Vieill. lb. 28. We might distinguish the Ploc. 

 alecto, Tem. Col. 440, which has an inflation at the base of the bill. 



