BLACK-BELLIED BENGALY. 
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perior tail-covers. The wings are like the hack, 
but the tail-feathers, all of which are graduated, are 
deep black. The quills are similar to those of the 
last species, but the second is not narrowed ; claws, 
broad and well curved ; legs and bill pale ; the latter 
dark at its tip. 
Total length, ; bill, from the gape, T ’ n ; wings, 
t 9 o ; tail beyond, 1^ ; ditto, from the base, 2 ; 
tarsus, 
CINEREOUS BENGAL Y. 
Estrelda candescent, Swains. 
Delicate cinereous; throat paler; belly and flanks darkest, 
with a few snowy spots ; rump, tail-covers above and be- 
neath, and margins of the tail-feathers crimson. 
Le Bengali gris-bleu, Vieill. Ois. Chant., PI. 8 — Fringilla 
cserulescens, Vieill. Ency. Moth. 986, 1 19. 
M. Vieillot, whose work upon the inter-tropical 
finches is in many respects highly valuable, was the 
first to describe and figure this lovely little bird ; 
he has, however, overlooked the delicate snow-like 
spots on the flanks, and by an error in his specific 
character, the hill, instead of the tail, is described 
as red* ; the former, in several specimens that have 
* Uropygio rostroque rubris, instead of uropygio caudaque 
rubris See Ency. Meth., p. 986. 
