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ORNITHOLOGY. 



Voj. Coquille Ois. Plate XVI, fig. 3. 



Specimens in the collection were, according to Mr. Peale, " killed 

 near Callao, Peru, in the early part of the month of July, while feed- 

 ing on the seeds of a species of grass. The males have a sweet war- 

 bling note." 



19. Gknus CARPODACUS, Kaup. Nat. Sjst. p. 161 (1829). 

 1. Caepodacus familiaris, Me Call. 



Carpodacus familiaris, McCall, Proc. Acad. Philada. VL p. 61 (1852). 

 Carpodacus rliodocolpus, Cabanis, Mus. Heine, p. 166 (1851). ? 



Cassin, B. of Cal. and Texas, I, Plate XIII. 



Specimens in the collection are from Puget's Sound, Oregon. 



20. Genus ESTRELDA, Swainson, Zool. Jour. Ill, p. 349 (1827). 



1. EsTRELDA astrilda {Linn.). 



Loxia astrild. Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 303 (1766). 



Buff. PI. Enl. CLVII, fig. 2; Vieill. Ois. Chant. Plate XII. 



The only specimen of this beautiful little species, in the collection, 

 is labelled as having been obtained at the Island of St. Helena, to 

 which, however, it had probably been taken as a cage-bird. 



an inch; middle toe, including the claw, half an inch; claw, two-tenths of an inch; hind 

 toe, nine-twentieths of an inch; claw, one-fourth of an inch; bill, seven-twentieths of an 

 inch. 



" Female. Lighter colored, and more uniformly brown above ; tail and wings more 

 fuliginous, and not so black, and having a less conspicuous white bar ; in size, rather less 

 than the male." 



