296 AVES. 
E. pithyornis, Pall.; Naum. 104, 3. (The Pine Bunting.) The 
throat, and a streak on the side of the head, red chesnut colour. 
M. Meyer distinguishes those buntings which have the nail of the 
thumb elongated like that of the Lark, by the name of Precrro- 
PHANES. Such is 
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.(1) To this we should add, 
Fring. laponica, Gm. or calearata, Pall. Fr. Tr. III, pl. 1, 15 
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. 
FrineiLua, Lin. 
The Sparrows have a conical beak, 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: | . 
aay ot 4 
Pioceus, Cuv.(2) 
The Weavers are provided with such,a large beak, that they have 
been partly classed with the Cassici; its straight commissure dis- 
tinguishes them from the latter. The upper mandible is moreover 
slightly convex. They are found in both worlds, and-most of those 
in the eastern continent are very skilful in the construction of their 
nest, which they form of intertwined blades of grass, from which 
circumstance they receive theirname. Such is 
Loxia philippina, L.3 Toucnam-Courvi des Philippines; Enl. 
135. Yellow, spotted with brown; black throat. Its nest, which 
is a suspended sphere, is pierced by a vertical canal, opening 
underneath, which communicates with a cavity on the side in 
which the young ones are lodged.(3) 
(1) The Emb. montana, and the Emb. mustelina, are merely different states of 
the Snow Bunting. 
(2) Tlacxevs, Weaver,—Vieill. has adopted this name and genus, pl. Ixxxiv. 
N.B. The Emzenizorpes of Temm. have become the Tarpriyora of Swainson, 
and the Emb. oryzivora forms the genus Doricnonrx of the same naturalist. 
(3) Add, the Capmore, Buff. (Oriolus textor, Gm.), Enl. 375 and 376 ;—Fringilla 
erythrocephala, Eni. 665; Vieill., Ois. ch., 28 ;—the pretended Tangara de malimbe, 
