1844.] Synopsis of Indian Fringillidce. 959 



XIII, 159, judging from the more full description of Dr. Horsfield's 

 specimens by Stephens, in Shaw's ' Zoology' : but the Javanese bird is 

 stated to have •' the greater portion of the outer tail-feather white, and 

 the following is of that colour on its outer web only ; whereas in the 

 Indian bird the white is confined to the exterior web of the outermost 

 feather. Length about five inches and a half, of wing three inches 

 and one-eighth, and tail two and one-eighth ; bill to forehead somewhat 

 exceeding half an inch, and tarse three-quarters : the outermost primary 

 seven-eighths of an inch long, and second an eighth shorter than the 

 third, fourth, and fifth, which are equal. Upper-parts streaky, the 

 centres of the feathers dusky-brown, and their edges light fulvous- 

 brown ; coronal feathers lengthened, as in the Larks generally : beneath 

 pale fulvescent, the throat white, and the breast marked with large oval 

 blackish spots : primaries and secondaries ferruginous on both webs of 

 each feather, except towards the tip, this dusky portion increasing to 

 the outermost : tail blackish, its four middle feathers brown, and the 

 outermost only white on its external web : bill and feet pale, the beak 

 tolerably thick. Inhabits the more northern portion of the peninsula of 

 India, being represented by the next species southward. 



3. M. affinis, Jerdon, MS. Very similar to the last species, but 

 having much less ferruginous colour on the wings, this being confined 

 to the outer webs of the primaries, and a deep internal margin to the 

 basal half only of their inner webs, never extending across the feather 

 as in M. erythroptera, but continued throughout the length of the 

 inner margin of the secondaries : the wing also is somewhat differently 

 formed, being rounder, with the short first primary longer and broader, 

 exceeding an inch in length, the second three-sixteenths to a quarter of 

 an inch minus the third, which equals the next three in some specimens, 

 whilst in others the fourth is somewhat the longest : and the tail- 

 feathers are less black, with the external web of the outermost, and a 

 slight exterior margin to the next, fulvescent-white, occasionally 

 spreading more or less on the inner web of the outermost feather. 

 Inhabits the southern part of the peninsula of India. 



4. M. Hayi, Jerdon, MS. Also very like the two preceding species, 

 but readily distinguished by its coronal feathers forming a pointed crest, 

 and by the total absence of rufous on the outside of the wings, while 

 on the inner surface this is pale and diminished in quantity : the under- 



