1842.] Asiatic Society. 461 



the upper-parts of a dingy bluish grey-brown, the large wing and tail-feathers prin- 

 cipally dusky, coverts more or less whitish-edged, and under-parts mottled with whi- 

 tish, having a dusky black subterminal cross-band to each feather. In P. erythrogas- 

 tra, the deep rufous tint of the under-parts of the male is permanent and constant, but 

 in a very few, I have seen an additional slight rufous patch surrounded by the cyaneous 

 of the fore-neck. 



*Motacilla variegata, Latham, Gen. Hist VI. 320; M. picata, Franklin, P. Z. S. 

 1831, 119: a male in summer and another in winter plumage. 



Anthus arboreus. 



Cinnyris Mahrattensis : adult and young. 



C. Sola : male. 



Zosterops Mader aspatanus : two males. 



* Pyrgita fiavicollis : female. 



* Amadina punctata : young male. 



* Estrelda formosa ; Fringilla formosa, Latham, Ind> Orn. I. 441, 23, as quoted in 

 Shaw's ' Zoology,' IX. 466 : male. 



Erythrospiza — ? {rosea, apud Hodgson). A species very different from the E. rodo- 

 pepla and E. rodochroa, figured by Gould, and which is commonly sold alive by the 

 dealers in Calcutta. I have now several living specimens of it. Lieut. Tickell names it 

 Pyrrhula roseata, but I doubt much if a prior name might not be found, although I 

 have myself been unsuccessful in satisfactorily determining the species. Length five 

 inches and three-quarters, of wing three inches and a quarter, and tail slightly fork- 

 ed, its outermost feathers two inches and a quarter; bill to forehead above three- 

 eighths of an inch, and considerably bulged ; tarse five-eighths : general colour, in 

 winter aspect of plumage, deep ruddy on the upper parts, passing into dusky- 

 roseate on the forehead, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; the nuchal feathers tinged 

 with ashy, and the dorsal margined with dusky-olive ; throat and breast roseate, pal- 

 ing below the belly, and lower tail-coverts rosy-white ; wings and tail dusky, the 

 feathers edged with ruddy-brown, a little albescent on the outer edge of the tips 

 of the tertiaries; bill and feet horny. In summer aspect of plumage the feathers 

 have lost their marginal edgings, the back appears greyish-brown, and the crown, 

 throat, fore-neck, and rump, are brilliant crimson. The female is altogether olive- 

 brown, paling below, and whitish on the belly; the wing-coverts and tertiaries are 

 tipped with pale yellowish-brown, and the clothing feathers of the upper parts, 

 excepting on the rump, with those of the fore-neck, breast, and flanks, are 

 centred darker. Song a feeble twittering, but soft and pleasing, intermediate to that 

 of the European Goldfinch and that of the small Redpole Linnet; the call-note much 

 resembles that of a Canary-bird, which group indeed this species nearly approximates 

 in its conformation. 



Columba Javanica : an inj ured male. 



C. ( Alsocomus) puniceus, Tickell : six specimens. A splendid species of Dove, 

 allied to the last, and also nearly related, it would seem, to the Javanese C. lacernu- 

 lata of Temminck ; but differing from that species, as described, by having dusky- 

 black upper tail-coverts, in the bill not being " wholly black," but vinaceous-purple 

 at base with a greenish-yellow tip, and presenting some other minor discrepancies. 

 Length fifteen inches and upwards, of wing eight inches and three-quarters, and tail six 



