1846.] or Little Known Species of Birds. 37 



7. A. undulata, (Lath.) : also Loxia punctularia, var. A, Lath. . 

 Munia lineoventer, Hodgson. India generally. From the nearly allied 

 Malayan species — L. punctularia, (L.), v. nisoria, (Tem.), — this Indian 

 bird is distinguished by having its upper tail-coverts ochreous, and tail 

 tinged with the same; whereas A. punctularia (vera) has the tail ashy, 

 and its coverts barred dusky- ash and white. Mr. Jerdon first informed 

 me of their distinctness. 



8. A. malabarica, (L.) : Lonchura cheet, Sykes ; Loxia bicolor, Tickell 

 (nee Latham). India generally ; common in Bengal. L. malabarica apud 

 Latham, is the young of A. sinensis; and his L. bicolor is evidently the 

 immature plumage of some other species. 



The Estrelda formosa, (Lath,) as I am informed by Capt. Wrough- 

 ton, occurs in immense flocks in the high lands where the Nerbudda 

 takes its rise. 



Fringillidce* Several of the species described in my ' Synopsis of Indian 

 Fringillidce,' J. A. S. XIII, 944 et seq. (1844), have since been described 

 by Mr. Hodgson in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society' for April, 

 1845. Pyrrhuloides epauletta is there termed Pyrrhoplectes epauletta. 

 The generic name Propyrrhula is transferred to Pyrrhospiza of my 

 synopsis, and Pr. punicea described as Pr. rubeculoides . Carpodacus 

 (v. Erythrospiza, Eonap.) erythrinus, is designated Pyrrholinota rose- 

 ata ; and C. rodochrous and C. rodopeplus are styled Propasser. — I 

 lately saw fine specimens of Pyrrhospiza punicea from the Boorendoo 

 Pass ; and with them a new species of restricted Fringilla, from Huttoo 

 mountain, near Simla, in the collection of Capt. Thomas, 39th Regiment 

 Bengal Native Infantry. Pyrrhospiza is but slightly removed from typi- 

 cal Fringilla, which group it connects with the various roseate Finches ; 

 and will most probably contain the Fr. sanguinea of Gould : and another 

 nearly allied form is Leucosticte, Swainson, figured in the Fauna Ame- 

 ricana- borealis, to which may seemingly be referred Mr. Hodgson's 



* It may be remarked here that Passer montanus is the common Sparrow of Java, 

 from which island it was long ago mentioned to have been received, in the Diet. Class. 

 I had before traced it to Arracan and Malacca, and suggested its being the Siamese 

 Sparrow of Crawfurd. It is common in China and Japan, also in the Himalaya, and 

 in Afghanistan, extending westward to the British Islands. 



Of the common Indian Sparrow (P. indicus of Jardine and Selby, and ' Black - 

 breasted Finch' of Latham), I find that some males, especially in breeding aspect of 

 plumage, are fully as rufous as represented, and the under- parts of both sexes are 

 always whitish: but the size accords with that of the ordinary European Sparrow, to 

 which it is so very closely allied. 



