244 GROSBEAK. 



44.— SCARLET GROSBEAK. 



Fringilla punicea, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 160. — Horsfield. 



LENGTH three inches and a half. Plumage deep scarlet; the 

 wings brown ; tail dusky; wing coverts, breast, and belly spotted 

 with white. 



Inhabits Java, and called there Menyiring ; is one of the smallest, 

 and most beautiful birds of the Genus ; the coverts of the tail are 

 more obscurely dotted; the interior tail feathers terminated by a 

 narrow band. The colours of the female are less brilliant, 



45.— MALACCA GROSBEAK. 



Loxia Malacca, Ind. Orn. i. 385. Lin. i. 302. G?n. Lin. i. 851. Daud. ii. 401. 



Shaw's Zool. ix. 332. 

 Passer Sinensis rostro caeruleo, Klein, Av. 88. 

 Coccothraustes javensis, Bris. iii. 237. t. 13. 1. Id. Svo. i. 375. 

 Le Jacobin, Buf. iii. 468. PL enl. 139. 3. 



White-breasted Indian Sparrow, Ediv. pi. 355. Alb. ii. pi. 53. Osb. Voy. ii. 329. 

 Malacca Grosbeak, Gen. Syn. iii. 140. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill bluish ash-colour; head, 

 neck, middle of the belly, thighs, and under tail coverts black ; 

 breast and sides of the belly white ; back, wings, and tail chestnut ; 

 legs brown. 



The female is duller in colour, and the thighs are chestnut. 



Inhabits Java. 



A.— Loxia Malacca, Lin. i. p. 302. 16. (6. 



Passer fuscus capite nigro, Klein, Av. 90. 



Coccothraustes Sinensis, Bris. iii. 235. Id. Svo. i. 374. 



Chinese Sparrow, Edw. pi. 43. Gen. Syn. iii. 141. A. Id. Sup. 152. 



In this the head, throat, and neck before, are black ; the rest of 

 the plumage chestnut; bill and legs cinereous. 



