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PRINGILLID^. 



Pastor roseus, Lin.; Oould. Birds of Eur -pi. 212; Nairn, voqt 

 t. 63; Jerd. B. Jnd. ii. p. 333, No. 690; Blf. East. Persia, ii. p. 267; 

 Str. F. i. 208; in. 208, 495; Murray, Hdhlt., Zool., Sfc, Sind, p. ITe! 

 Pastor peguanus, Less. Pastor suratensis et seleucus, Gm. Syst. Nat. ■ 

 Gray, Cat. B. Br. Mas. — The Rose-colodeed Pastor. 

 : Head, crest, crown, neck on the back and nape black,, glossed with 

 bluish purple ; chin and throat black ; entire back, breast, rump and 

 upper tail-coverts pale salmon or delicate rose colour ; wing-coverts 

 black, the lesser series margined with grey; and the greater series 

 glossy black with purple reflections ; primaries dark brown, tinged with 

 greenish ; some of the secondaries glossy black, also with green reflec- 

 tions, and others only so on the outer web ; tail greenish black; under 

 tail-cbverts black ; bill yellowish rose; legs yellowish brown; irides 

 deep brown. 



Length.- — 9 to 9'5 inches, wing 5'25, tail 3, bill at front 08. 



Hab. — S. B. Europe, Asia Minor, India, Ceylon, Assam, Burmah 

 and Pegu.- A winter visitant in most parts of India; arrives in Sind 

 about the beginning of April in large flocks; in the Punjab and N. W. 

 Provinces in August. Occurs also as a migrant in Beloochistan, Persia, 

 Afghanistan and Eastern Tuikistan. 



Family, FRINGILLID.^. 



Small birds with short, thick, conic bills, mostly angular at base ; 

 wings usually long ; tarsi moderate. 



Sub-Family, PLOCEIN^,— Weaver Birds. 



Bill thick at base, with the keel pi'ojecting on the forehead and 

 arched to the tip; wings rounded; 1st quill very short ; tarsi and toes 

 strong, scutate; hind toe long and strong. 



Cren. Ploceus. — Ouv. 



Characters same as those of Sub-Family ; 3rd to 5th quills longest, 

 first very short; tertials nearly as long as the quills. 



Ploceus phillipinus, Lin. Syst. Nat. i. 305 ; D'Aub. P. E. 185, 

 2; fleic/i. /S'tHf/. t. 36, 283. Ploceus phiUipensis, Briss. Orn. iii. 232, 

 pi. xii. f. i. Ploceus maculata, P. L. S. Mull. Suppl. 150; ex P. E. ; 

 Hume, Str. F. vi. 399. Ploceus baya (Blyth) apud. Jerd. B. Lid. ii. 

 843, No. 694; Mvrray, Hdbk., Zool., Sfc, Sind, p. 176.— The Common 

 Weaver Bird. 



Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. — Forehead, crown, sides of the 

 neck and breast bright yellow ; lores, sides of the face, ear-coverts, 

 chin and throat dull brown, paler on the chin; back brown, the feathers 

 with yellow edgings; rump paler brown, edged lighter ; upper tail-coverts 

 a dirty buff colour or rufous white; wing-coverts dull brown, the 

 greater series and the primary coverts narrowly edged with greyish 

 white ; primaries, secondaries and tertiaries dull brown, the primaries 

 with a narrow edging of pale yellow on their outer webs, also the 

 secondaries ; tertiaries broadly edged yellowish white; tail dull brown, 

 the feathers faintly and narrowly edged with yellowish green; abdomen. 



