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BED-COLLARED BENGALY. 
Amadina fasciata, Swains. 
PLATE XV. 
Pale testaceous, with transverse angulated stripes ; middle of 
the body cinereous ; belly white ; a crimson bar across the 
chin and. ears. 
Loxia fasciata, Gmelin, Latliam, &e. — Fasciated Gros-beak, 
Brown's lllus., PI. 27. — Lo Loxia Fascitfe, Vteill. Ois. Chant., 
PI. 58, p. 90, fig. opt. 
We now come to ano tlier division of the genus 
Amadina, where the bill assumes the typical cha- 
racter of the whole group ; that is, it is short, yet 
remarkably broad in proportion to the heighth 
of the upper mandible; the tail also is short. 
The feet, however, still retain the structure of the 
last group, for the hinder-toe and its claw are 
shorter than the tarsus. The most perfect example 
we have yet seen of this modification is the beau- 
tiful Amadina Lathami of New Holland. Yet 
the one now before us is also a typical species. 
Nearly all these small footed species are found in 
Africa and New Holland, while the great footed 
Bengaly (representing, or perhaps uniting to, Eu- 
plectes ), are chiefly inhabitants of tropical Asia. 
This elegant bird is about the size of a canary. The 
