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Amadina iiialabarica, JarcUne et Selhy^ III. Orn. t. 34. 
Blytli, J. A. S. Beng. XIII. p. 949 ; XV. p. 37. 
G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, II. p. 370. 
Loxia bicolor, TicJcell, J. A. S. Beng. II. p. 578 (1833), 
{nee. Latham). 
Lonchura Cheet, Sylces, P. Z. S. (1832), p. 95 ; (1834), 
p. 148. McClelland, P. Z. S. (1839), p. 163. 
Spermestes Cheet, Jerdon, Madr. Journ. XI. p. 27. 
Burgess, P. Z. (1854), ^. 160. 
Malabar Grosbeak, Latham. 
Chobga, Hind., Blyth. 
Sab MrNiA, Bengal, Blyth. 
Chtjrchuea, Plains, Boyle. 
PiDTJEi, Bengal, F. (Buck) Hamilton. 
A. B. Dukbun. Presented by Colonel Sykes. 
C, D. Bengal. From the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
/. Scinde. Presented by Dr. Henry Gould. 
^. Drawing. From Dr. F. (B.) Hamilton's Collection. 
" These birds live in small families ; I have frequently found them- 
in possession of the deserted nests of the common Weaver-bird ; but 
their own nest is a hollow ball, made of a delicate Agrostis, with a 
lateral hole for the entrance of the birds. I took a nest in the fork 
of a branch of the Mimosa arahica ; it contained ten oblong minute 
white eggs, -1^ in. long by in. in diameter. The cry of the bird 
is cheet, cheet, cheet, uttered simultaneously by flocks in flight." — 
(Colonel Sykes.) 
" Inhabits India generally, Ceylon, and is common in Bengal." — 
(Blyth.) 
" This little Finch is found all over the Peninsula, frequenting 
hedges, low trees in cultivated ground, and low bushes on the open 
plains, or by a river-side. It frequently enters gardens, and feeds 
on various kinds of seeds." — (Jerdon.) 
" About Calcutta, this bird is frequently tamed ; and a pair always 
being kept in the same cage, each bird has a small cord fastened 
round its body, and the owner holding one bird by the cord, throws 
up the other in the air, which always returns and sits by its com- 
panion." — (F. Buchanan Hamilton.) 
" These birds are often to be seen on the ground, picking up 
grass-seeds, and so close together that several may be killed at a 
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