BRONZE-HOODED BENGAXT. 
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pure white; the under tail-covers hare a few lunu- 
late lines. Tail black, very short and rounded ; 
bill and feet, black. 
Total length, 3j ; hill, T 7 5 ; wings, 1 T R 3 ; tail be- 
yond, T 7 (j ; tarsus, ; hind-toe and claw the same. 
RED WINGED BENGAL Y. 
Pytilia phanicoptera, Swains. 
PLATE XYI. 
Cinereous ; body beneath, transversely and laterally banded 
with whitish ; rump and margins of the wing and tail- 
covers crimson. 
The region whose ornithology we are now illus- 
trating, has furnished us with what we at present 
consider as four of the types of Amadina. The 
first is represented by the little Estreldw , with long 
or at least cuneated tails ; the second is exemplified 
by the great billed Amadina fasciata, where the 
tail is always short, and the tarsus longer than the 
hind-toe. The third or great footed division is 
shewn in our Spermestes cucullata, and for the 
fourth we adduce, as an example, the bird before 
us. What we consider as the fifth type, belongs to 
India; it has a long pointed tail, and is represented 
by the Fringilla sphecura of Temminck, a name 
which neither its generic or specific sense can be 
