1844.] On the Leiotrichane Birds of the Subhemalayas. 941 



mostly the same location ; but some of both of these are found in the 

 lower hills and plains, especially of the Finches, as the Tooti or Rosy 

 Finch \Erythrospiza erythrina], which, by the way, seems to me a distinct 

 type leading from Pyrrhula to Linota* The Gandums or Buntings 

 are likewise found in the plains ; though there the European [forms of] 

 Finches are properly represented by the Weavers, and the Amadines, — the 

 Bay as [Ploceus,v. Euplectes, Sw.], Lauls [Esti elda amandava'], Moonias 

 [Amadina, v, Lonchura, Sykes, v. Munia, Hodgson], &c. of Indian 

 speech. 



Emberizae are commonly hill birds, and Pari almost, or quite, exclu- 

 sively so. I have four species of the former and twelve of the latter 

 genus ! 



May, 1843. 



P. S. — Adopting Swainson's views, one might justify the above divi- 

 sion of our Leiotrichane birds by shewing that they form a circle analo- 

 gous to the various tribes of the Insessores, thus : — 



Tribes of Insess. Analogical characters. \ * ' h 



Conirostres. j p^^arious * ^ "*' } Frin 9^P^us. [Mesia.] 



n . f Wings rounded. Insects 1 Leiothrix. [olim Bahila, 



Ventirostres. | chiefly j> R g 



Fissirostres. Feet imperfect. Hemiparus. [Siva.~\ 



Tenuirostres. < r ' ( Certhiparus. [Minla.] 



Rasores, or Scan- J Bill entire, short; tail ri- \ p 

 sores. \ gid ; hallux enlarged. J ? 



At least it will be allowed to be pretty evident that Certhiparus is 



the analogue of Mniotilta, and Hemiparus of Zosterops ; but as Swainson 



has made these respectively the scansorial and suctorial types, the above 



distribution is probably in fault, and in fact is but a hasty glance of the 



subject in this view, which is purely theoretical and perhaps unsound. 



[The decidedly Leiotrichane genus Pteruthius is here omitted altogether, 



though composed of two Himalayan and Nepalese species, viz. Pt. 



rufiventer, nobis, /. A. S. XI, 183, and XII, 854, and Pt. erythropterus, 



v. Lanius erythropterus , Vigors, and of Gould's ' Century,' noticed also 



in XI, 183.] 



* This bird is perfectly true to the form of the American Purple Finch of Wilson, 

 which is the type of Erythrospiza, Bonap. : the group consisting of Linnets with tumid 

 bills, in which respect alone they appear to me to approximate to the Bullfinches. — 

 E. B. 



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