Ee iy Na. Cy Hy; 
parts of the body, grey: the lower part of the back and ruinp, 
and all the under parts, blue: on each fide of the head is a 
curved. purplifh red fpor, placed beneath the eyes, and: rather 
behind them: the quills are brown, edged with grey: the tail 
pale blue, and a little wedge-fhaped: the legs whitith. 
The. female is the fame in colour, but wants the red fpot be~ 
neath the eyes. 
Some fpecimens have the under parts of the fame colour as the 
back, but paler; in others there is a tinge of red on the belly.. 
Edwards’s bird was of an afh-coloured brown above, and pale 
blue on the under parts and tail, but had no red mark under the 
eyes; and what he took for the fema/e was cinereous brown, and 
had only a light tinge of blue on the under parts of the body... 
Thefe differences are al] to be feen in a variety of fpecimens in. 
the Mufeum of Sir A. Lever.. 
Fringilla amandava, Lin. Sy/?. i. p: 319. 10: 
Le Bengali piqueté, Brif. orn. iii. p. 206. 62. pl. 10. f. 4:—Buft cif. iv. p. 
96. pl. 2. f. 1.—P/. end. 115. f. 3. 
Avicula Amandavea, Raii Syn. p. 92. 9-- 
Amadavad Bird, Wil]. orn. p. 266. pl. 46.—ZAlbin. iii. pl. 77.—Edw. pl. 
355+ t. 1 
Br. Muf: Lev. Mf. 
IZE of a Wren: length four inches. Bill of a dull red: 
~ all the upper parts brown, with a mixture of red: the under 
the fame, but paler; the middle of the belly darkeft: all the 
feathers of the upper wing coverts, breaft, and fides, fave a {pot 
of white at the tip: the quills. are grey brown: tail black : legs 
pale yellowifh white... 
The 
gir 
FEemace. 
82. 
+ AMADU- 
VADE F. 
DeEscRIPTION. 
