944 Synopsis of Indian F ring illidce. QNo. 156. 



Jay -like or Crow- like manner continually resorted to by the true Pari ; 

 and it is likewise celebrated for its beautifully constructed large domed 

 nest, which is placed in a forked branch, whereas the Pari nidificate in 

 holes and cavities : but I remember M. Audubon telling me, that he had 

 discovered some cases of intermediate habit even in this particular, one or 

 two North American species constructing a regular domed nest with 

 inside a suitable cavity in a tree ; and the same is not unlikely to be the 

 case with these two Himalayan species. 



The above ten species of Himalayan Pari (apud Hodgson,) are all 

 which I am acquainted with at present ; but there is a "P. (?) minu- 

 tus," Jerdon, of Southern India, described by the latter naturalist, 

 which appears to have the plumage of Sylviparus, but of which " the 

 bill is larger, and less robust, than in the Tits, in general approaching 

 that of JEgithalus." Madras Journal, XI, 8. (Non vidi.) 



I was next about to endeavour to indicate Mr. Hodgson's four Em- 

 berizce ; but as I dislike giving isolated notices, I will venture to offer 

 a general 



Synopsis of Indian FringillidvE, — 



Which will afford the opportunity of making known several new 

 species discovered by Mr. Hodgson, and be far more acceptable to the 

 Ornithologist than an indiscriminate medley of previously undescribed 

 species. 



To begin with the genus Ploceus (v. Euplectes, Sw.), three species of 

 which are common in Bengal and respectively more or less so in other 

 parts of India. 



1. PL philippinus (?) ; thus marked with doubt because there is 

 reason to suspect its distinctness from its representative in the Philip- 

 pine Islands, or Loxia philippina, Lin., founded on the Grosbec des 

 Philippines of Brisson, or Toucnam-courvi of Buffon (Ois. Ill, 462) : 

 the latter author refers to Brisson for a description of the male ; but 

 in his notice of the Baglafecht of Abyssinia (PL bagla/echt, Vieillot, 

 Loxia phillippina, var, Lath.), he alludes to a black spot on each side of 

 the head of the Philippine species, which certainly does not apply to the 



