FRINGILLA oryzivora, 

 Faddy bird. Rice bird, or Java Sparrow. 



Geneuic Character. 



Rostrum breve, validum, crassum, rectum, conicum ; mandibulce supe- 

 rioris gibbce apice tix injtexo, integro ; cuhntnis convexi basi 

 angulatd. Nares basales, rotunda:, pone culminis basin positcc, 

 plumulis vix obfectce. Pedes sedentes. Alee breves. 



Bill short, strong, thick, straight, conic ; upper mandible swelled, 

 the tip slightly inflexed, entire ; culmine convex, the base 

 angulated. Nostrils basal, round, placed behind the base of 

 the culmine, and partially covered by the frontal feathers. 

 Feet sitting. Wings short. 



Generic Types. Loxice Javensis, Braziliana. Emberiza principalis, 

 cicris. Tanagria ccerulea, SfC. (Temminck.) 



Specific Character. 



F.cana; capite cauddque nigris ; rostro rubra ; crisso roseo-albente ; 

 auribus {in maribus) nixeis. 



Lead-coloured; head and tail black; bill red; belly obscure rosy; 

 ears (in the male) snowy. 



Loxia oryzivora. Gm. l.,302. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 380. Gen. Zool. 9. 

 2. 316. Brisson, 1. 374. 7. 



Java Grosbeak. Lath. Syn. 3. 129. Supp. 151. Gen. Zool. 9. 316. 

 pi. 51. 



This elegant bird has been so distorted, in the representa- 

 tions given of it by the older ornithologists, that little 

 apology is thought necessary for introducing more accurate 

 figures of both sexes in this publication. It is said to inhabit 

 the Cape and various parts of India, causing much damage 

 to the rice plantations, and is frequently brought to this 

 country alive. The figure is of the size of life, the bill bright 

 red, but whitish towards the tip ; it is very strong, thickened 

 round the basal margins, and forms a sharp angle between 

 the frontal feathers : the nostrils are small, round, and placed 

 behind the thick margin of the bill, and not on its outer 

 surface. Legs flesh-coloured ; the orbits are said to be red 

 in the live bird. 



I have followed the example of lUiger and Temminck in 

 uniting the greatest part of the Linmean Loxiae and Friugillae 

 under the latter genus, retaining only the Cross-bills under 

 the former. 



PI. 156. 



