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of the ear-coverts are dark brown, contrasting strongly with the 

 whitish supercilium : bill formed exactly as in the other species. 



To Amadina maja, (p. 949,) should have been added, as a synonyme, 

 Loxia leucocephala, Raffles. A. acuticauda, Hodgson, is the Loxia 

 molucca, Lin., and will therefore range as Amadina molucca. Speci- 

 mens from Malacca are perfectly identical in species with those procur- 

 ed in Nepal by Mr. Hodgson.* 



For Erythrospiza (p. 952), must be substituted the prior name 

 Carpodacus of Kaup : and for Corythus, Strobilophaga of Vieillot. 



Carduelis caniceps (p. 955). The Afghan specimen described, was 

 in summer aspect of plumage, when the winter edgings to its feathers 

 had been cast. Its length should have been printed Jive inches and 

 three-quarters. One from the western Himalaya, in winter garb, is 

 rather smaller, agreeing in length of wing with Gould's figure, and the 

 plumage has a browner tinge, less relieved with white on the fore-neck 

 and breast than in the Afghan summer specimen, or than in C. com- 

 munis ; but the colour is much less dark than in Gould's figure, the 

 red surrounding the base of the beak is also much less developed, and 

 there is no black streak passing backward from the eye. 



An oriental species of Ligurinus, or Greenfinch, exists in the Loxia 

 sinensis, Lath., founded on the Verdier de la Chine of Sonnerat. It 

 agrees in size, and in the Goldfinch-like marking of the wings, with 

 L. xanthogrammicus of the Andes. 



To the species of Bunting enumerated in pp. 957-8, may now be 

 added 



E. melanops, nobis. Length six inches, of wing two and seven™ 

 eighths, and tail two and five-eighths ; bill to forehead seven-sixteenths, 

 and tarse three-quarters of an inch. Head, neck, throat and breast, 

 dull green, paler below, and a little streaked with dusky on the crown ; 

 lores, chin, and around the eyes, black ; belly and lower tail-coverts 

 sulphur-yellow, the flanks greenish with dusky streaks : scapularies and 

 inter-scapularies rufescent, with a black central streak to each feather ; 



* Lord A. Hay writes me word—" 1 have specimens of Amadina punctularia v. 

 nisoria from Malacca, and they seem distinct from our Indian bird; being much 

 li^hter-coloured, and the markings seem differently formed."— Should they prove 

 distinct, the Indian species would perhaps rank as Am. lineoventer, ( Hodgson :) but I 

 remember comparing Malayan with Bengal specimens some time ago, and observing 

 no difference between them. 



