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. IIT., pl. 1, 1; 
Grand Montain of 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. 
Frinecitya, 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 :— 
Proceus}, 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 
theirname. Such is 
Loxia philippini, L.; Toucnam-Courvi des Philippines; Enl. 135. 
Yellow, 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 f. 
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. pl. 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.; Man- 
* The Emb. montana, and the Emb. mustelina, are merely different states of the 
Snow Bunting. 
+ Plokus, Weaver,—Vieill. has adopted this name and genus, Gal. pl. Ixxxiv. 
N. B. The EmperizoipeEs of Temm. have become the Tarpivoxa of Swainson, 
and the Emb. oryzivora forms the genus DoticHonyx of the same naturalist. 
{ Add, the Capmore, Buff. (Oriolus textor, Gm.), Enl. 375 and 376 ;—Fringilla ery- 
throcephala, Enl. 665, Vieill. Ois. ch. 28;—the pretended Tangara de malimbe, Daud. 
An. Mus. I, p. 148 pl. x, or Malimbe huppé, Vieill. Ois. ch. 42 and43;—the Malimbe 
orangé, Id. 44;—Malimbe @ gorge noir, Id. 45;—the Tisserin & front d’or (Ploc. auri- 
frons, Tem. Col. 175, 176);—the Baglafecht (Lox. abyssinica) ;—the Nélicourvi (Lox. 
pensilis), Sonn. Voy. II, pl. cix;—the Worabee (Fring. abyssinica, Gm.), Vieill. Ois. 
ch. 28 ;—Fring. erythrocephala, Gm.; Vicill. Ib. 28. We might distinguish the Ploc. 
alecto, Tem. Col. 446, which has an inflation at the base of the bill. 
