FRINGILLIDiE. 



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GENUS CLII.^MIRAFRA, Horsfield- 



Rostrum breviusculum, eras- 

 sum, conico-attenuatum, 

 subcompressum : mandi- 

 hula superior culmine ca- 

 rinato. 



Nares basales, rotundge, parte 

 superiore membrana ves- 

 titae. 



Remiges^ prima spuria, se- 

 cunda ad sextam sub- 

 aequales longiores, tertia 

 ad sextam extern^ emar- 

 ginatae, ceterae gradatim 

 breviores. 



Pedes mediocres : digitus 

 medius elongatus ; unguis 

 hallucis mediocriter arcu- 

 atus medio antico magis 

 duplo longior. 



Beak rather short, thick, co- 

 nic-attenuated, somewhat 

 compressed : the upper 

 mandible with the back 

 carinated. 



Nostrils basal, round, clothed 

 on the upper part by a 

 membrane. 



Quills, first spurious, second 

 to the sixth nearly equal 

 and longest, the third to 

 the sixth e)i tern ally notch- 

 ed, the rest gradually 

 shorter. 



Legs moderate: the middle 

 toe elongated ; the hinder 

 claw moderately arched, 

 and longer than that of 

 the middle anterior toes. 



Sp. 1. Mi. Javanica. Linn. Trans. {Horsf.) v. xiii. ^3. 159. — 



Horsf. Zuol. Research. 

 Mi. supra Jii sea Jerrugineo varia : subtus sordida; ao'illis pal- 



lide badiis. 

 Mirafra above brown varied with ferruginous ; beneath dull ; with 



the axilla pale chesnut. 

 Alauda mirafra. Temrn. PL Col. 305. J'. 2. 



Inhabits Java. Length five inches and a half: 

 the upper parts of the plumage are spotted with ashy- 

 brown black, the edges of the feathers being of an 

 Isabella colour : the outer edge of the quills is bright 



