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under wing-coverts : shoulder of the wing (under the scapularies) bright 

 steel-blue or purple, tipped with amethystine, which forms a distinct bar. 

 In L. cyaniventeis the upper-parts are glossy steel-green, uniform on 

 the crown, nape, and back, but passing to bluish on the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts, and also on the ear-coverts ; throat and breast like the back, 

 but the belly and thighs are brilliant steel-blue mixed with amethyst ; as 

 likewise the axillaries and under wing-coverts, which are very brilliant, 

 the amethystine hue prevailing : shoulder of the wing (under the scapu- 

 laries) steel-blue, with no terminal amethystine bar as in L. nitens, but 

 a little of this colour shewing at the bases of the feathers. In L. cyani- 

 venteis, the wings are more uniformly glossed than in L. nitens, extend- 

 ing quite over the tertiaries and primaries ; and the wing-coverts and 

 tertiaries have their black terminal spots larger and rounder. In fact, 

 the northern bird approaches in brilliancy to the superb L. splendens, 

 (Leach, v. L. ptilinorhynchus, Swainson,) of W. Africa, of which also we 

 possess a fine specimen. 



*Juida bufiventris, (Ruppell). Abyssinia. This form approximates 

 the Malayan genus Caloenis, G. R. Gray ; but the feathers are through- 

 out rounded or not acuminated, 



*Hyphantoenis aueifeons, (Temminck). Male and female. S. Africa, 



*Ploceus ? Male. S. Africa. 



*Pl. laevatus, Ruppell. M. and F. Abyssinia. 



*Euplectes xanthomelas, Ruppell. M. and F. Ditto. 



*Eu. flavescens, (Daud. ; Fringilla phalerata, Illiger). S. Africa. 



*Eu. flammiceps, Swainson. M. and F. Abyssinia. 



*Coliuspassee torquatus, Ruppell. (Vidua rubritorques ? Swainson). 

 M. and F. Abyssinia. 



*Vidua paeadisea, (L.) Two females. Abyssinia. 



*V. seeena, (L. ; V. erythrorhyncha, Swainson). Abyssinia. 



*Amadina (?) frontalis, (Vieillot). Abyssinia. 



*Munia cantans, (L.) Two specimens, from Abyssinia. Affined to 

 the Indian M. malabarica (v. Zonckura cheet, Sykes). 



*Estrelda elegans, (Vieillot; subg. Pytilia, Swainson). Abyssinia. 



*E. bengalus, (L.) Abyssinia. 



*E. cineeea, (Vieillot). Abyssinia. 



*Passer simplex, (Lichtenstein ; P. Swainsonii, Ruppell : nee P. sim- 

 plex apud Swainson, which = P. gularis, Lesson). Abyssinia. 



*P. salicicolus, (Vieillot; P. hispaniolensis, Tern.) Female, from 

 Egypt. This species was observed in Afghanistan by Capt. Thos. Hutton, 

 and is not uncommon at Peshawur. In Kohat it abounds, and is there 

 known as the ' Kabul Sparrow.' <T t.. Alex. J. Trotter, in epistold.) 



