566 
MELOPYRRHA. — MENETICA. 
Najwdes undulatus Vigors et Horsfield, Transact. Linn. Soc. 1826. XV. 277. 
Euphema undulata Wagler, Monogr. Psitt. 545. 
Sagittifer minor undulatus Bourjot, Perr. Tb. 8. 
Canary Parrot. — Betcherrygah. — Biljang Biljang. 
MELOPYRRHA nigra Bonaparte. = Spermophila nigra Gray. 
MELOSPIZA (Fringillidae. — [k&koç cantus, G7ct£a fringilla) Baird, Birds N America 
1858. 476. = Zonotrichia Swains. 
Body stout. Bill conical, very obsoletely notched or smooth, somewhat com- 
pressed. Lower mandible not so deep as the upper. Commissure nearly straight. 
Gonys a little curved. Foot stout, not stretching beyond the tail; tarsus a little 
longer than the middle toe; outer toe a little longer than the inner; its claw not 
quite reaching to the base of the middle one. Hind toe appreciably longer than 
the middle one. Wings quite short and rounded, scarcely reaching beyond the 
base of the tail; the tertials considerably longer than the secondaries;' the 
quills considerably graduated; the fourth longest; the first not longer than the 
tertials and almost the shortest of the primaries. Tail moderately long and con- 
siderably graduated; the feathers oval at the tips. Crown and back similar in 
color and streaked; beneath thickly streaked. Tail immaculate. 
cinerea Finsch, Bremer Abhandigen 1872. III. 41. = Zonotrichia cinerea 
BONAP. 
fallax Baird, Birds NAmerica 481. = Zonotrichia fallax Baird. 
Gouldi Baird, Birds NAmerica 479. = Zonotrichia Gouldi. 
guttata Finsch, Bremer Abhandigen. 1872. III. 43. = Zonotrichia guttata 
Gray. 
Heermanni Baird, Birds NAmerica 478. == Zonoirichia Heermanni. 
insignis Bahid, Transact. Chicago Acad. 1869. Tb. 29. Fig. 2. = Zonotrichia 
ins ignis. 
Lincolni Baird, Birds NAmerica 482. = Zonotrichia Lincolni Gray. 
melodia Baird, Birds NAmerica 477. = Zonotrichia melodia Bonap. 
palustris Baird, Birds NAmerica 483. = Ammodromus palustris Swains. 
pectoralis v. Müller, Reise Mexico III. 19. = Zonotrichia pectoralis. 
rufina Baird, Birds NAmerica 480. = Zonotrichia guttata Gray. 
Samuelis Baird, Birds NAmerica 455. = Ammodromus Samuelis Baird. 
MEL0Z0NE (Pitylinae) Reichenbach, natürl. Syst. Taf. 79. = Embernagra Less, 
Synon.: Melexone Gray. — Melanzone Cab. — Pyrgisoma Puch, 
biarcuata Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. 1860. VIII. 412. = Embernagra biarcuata. 
Cabanisi Gray, Handl. Birds II. 92. = Embernagra biarcuata. 
Kieneri Gray, Handl. Birds II. 92. = Embernagra Kieneri. 
leucotis Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. 1860. VIII. 423. = Embernagra leucotis. 
rubricata Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. 1866. XIV. 234. = Embernagra rubricata. 
MELPODA lippa Reichenbach, Singvögel 26. = Estrilda melpoda Hartl. 
3IE1VETICA (Muscicapidae. — [xsveuxo^ sustinens). — Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. 
1866. XIV. 392. — 11 Specc. 
Synon.: Siphia, Dimorpha, Digenea Hodgs. — Anthipes, Nitidula Blyth. 
albignlaris 
Dimorpha albigularis Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1842. XI. 190. 
auricularis 
Leiothrix signata Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839. VII. 162. 
Siphya auricularis Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1843. XII. 940. 
Chaitaris auricularis Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1844. 84. 
Nillava auricularis Gray, Genera Birds I. 264. 
erythaca [Malacca. 
Siphia erythaca Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1847. XVI. 126; Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1861. 200. 
Digenea erythaca Gray, Handl. Birds I. 327. 
Hodgsoni [China. 
Siphia Hodgsoni Verreaux, nouv. Arch. Mus. Bull. 1870. VI. 33. 
