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popular name of Amaduvad was originally applied to this species, 

 and Mr. Blyth has shown that this word took its origin from the 

 city of Ahmedabad, whence it used to be imported into Europe in 

 numbers. 



A nearly allied species, E. punicea, Horsfield, inhabits Java and 

 other Malayan isles. 



705. Estrelda formosa, Latham. 



Fringilla, apud Latham— Blyth, Cat. 608— Havre lal, H., or 

 Havre munia — i. e., the green Munia. 



The Green Wax- Bill. 



Descr. — Above light olive-green, quills and tail dusky, the 

 former edged with green ; beneath very pale yellow, somewhat 

 darker on the lower belly and under tail-coverts, and with broad 

 transverse dashes of dusky on the flanks and sides of the abdomen. 



Bill waxy red ; feet plumbeous brown ; irides pale brown. 

 Length barely 4 inches ; wing If ; tail If. 



This very pretty little bird is chiefly found in Central India. I 

 have seen it in the jungles north of Nagpore, on the high land 

 near Seonee, on the Pachmarri range of hills, rather abundant, and 

 on the Vindhian range of hills near Mhow. It has also been found 

 at Omerkantak, near the source of the Nerbudda, and in other 

 parts of Central India, and I am told that it occurs in Oudh, and 

 other parts of Northern India, in the Pindooa Dhoon according to 

 Col. Tytler. It is occasionally caught and caged at Kamptee, 

 Saugor, and Mhow. It associates in tolerably large flocks, with a 

 low chirping note, and keeps much to the woods. 



Blyth indicates, from a drawing, a plain colored species from 

 Assam. This group is greatly developed in Africa. Among the 

 Eastern species especially deserving notice here, is the very beautiful 

 Erythrura jjvasina, from Sumatra and Java, with three or four allied 

 species from the oceanic region ; and there are one or two similarly 

 colored Australian species, viz. Poepliila Gouldice, and another, 

 which resemble Parrots in the gaudiness of their plumage. 



The remaining sub-families want the minute first primary of the 

 two preceding groups. 



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