1846.] or Little Known Species of Birds. 285 



Jummoo, and in Cachemere." His lordship's description of the latter 

 identifying it with Ps.flavirostris of Darjeeling, while by the " Red-billed" 

 he probably means Ps. occipitalis. 



Gracula, p. 31, ante. Two species of this genus inhabit Ceylon : one, 

 the Gr. religiosa (apud nos), of southern India,*— the other new, which 

 may bear the name 



Gr. ptilogenys, nobis. This has no bare skin on the cheek, but the 

 occipital lappets are well developed, and the basal half of the lower man- 

 dible is black : bill moderately strong. Length of wing six inches. 

 Colouring as in the others.f 



Amadina, p. 36, ante. The A. malacca, or " White-breasted Indian 

 Sparrow" of Edwards, common in Southern India, occurs rarely in 

 Bengal, mingled in flocks of A. sinensis, or the " Chinese Sparrow" of 

 Edwards ; from which, indeed, it only differs in having the lower-parts 

 pure white, with the same abdominal black patch : and it is curious that 

 a third race inhabits the Malayan peninsula, similar to A. sinensis, 

 excepting in having no black patch on the abdomen ; whence the name 

 malacca is ill applied to the white-bellied bird of Peninsular India. J 



* Mr. Jerdon designates this Gr. minor (Madr. Journ. No. XXXI, 134) : but if it 

 be not admitted as Gr. religiosa (vera), as it is certainly the Eulabes indicus of 

 Cuvier, it would therefore rank as Gr. indica. 



f Add, as a synonyme to Sturnia pagodarum, the Turdus melanocephalus, Bahl 

 (nee Gmelin), Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Copenhagen, 1792.— Emberiza bruniceps, 

 Brandt,=.E. icterica, Eversham; and Coccothraustes speculigerus, Brandt, is proba- 

 bly no other than C. carnipes, Hodgson. 



X Immediately as the above was consigned to press, Mr. R. W. G. Frith kindly 

 allowed me the pickings of an extensive Malayan collection just received, wherein 

 are four species of Amadina, comprising one that I have been unable to identify. The 

 Malayan peninsula yields, at least, the following six species of this genus of Finches. 



1. A. oryzivora, (L.), which deviates a little from the type of all the rest. 



2. A. maja, (L.) : Loxia leucocephala, Raffles : L ferruginosa, Latham; whose L. 

 bicolor is probably the young. 



3. A. ? The race resembling A. sinensis, except in wanting the black patch 



on the abdomen. 



4. A. punctularia, (L.) : Fringilla nisoria, Tem. Distinguished from A. undulata, 

 (Lath.), v. Munia lineoventer, Hodgson, of India, by the whitish grey on the rump, 

 upper tail-coverts and tail, which is represented by glistening fulvous in the other. 



5. A. molucca (?), v. Munia acuticauda, Hodgson, which is doubtless Mr. Jerdon's 

 supposed A. striata (v. leuconota, Tem.,) of the Malayan peninsula. This agrees pretty 

 well with Latham's description of A. molucca, except that the striation of the upper- 

 parts is not mentioned ; Griffith adds, however, " rump, and under breast, cross-barred, 

 black and white." The belly in the Malacca species is pencilled with dusky, but 

 not the white patch over the rump. Mr. Hodgson's Nepal specimens merely differ in 



