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RED-WINGED BENGALI". 
retained ; the latter should he obviously written 
sphenura*. 
Nearly all the types which represent the order of 
waders have the hill much more lengthened than 
any of their immediate congeners. We see this 
throughout all the larger groups of nature, whether 
in quadrupeds or birds, fishes or insects. We may 
even trace it in the present sub-family, in the genus 
Carduelis, and we find this same character in the 
type before us, distinguished as it is by having a 
more lengthened bill than is to be found in any of 
the divisions just named. It is separated from 
Estrelda by its short tail, and from Aniadina by its 
lengthened bill. A second example is that lovely 
bird the Frinc/illa elegans of authors. Both these, 
in addition to the above characters, have the second 
quill shortened, and conspicuously narrowed towards 
the end; the feet are small, and the tail almost 
even ; the bill, as before observed, is shaped like 
that of Euplectes. 
Of this beautiful and entirely new species we 
have never seen more than one specimen. The 
upper parts are light grey or cinereous, inclining to 
brown ; but all the feathers of the wing, except the 
scapulars, are deeply margined with rich scarlet. 
The throat and breast are like the back, but minutely 
freckled with whitish ; the remaining under parts 
are nearly white, with transverse cinereous bands on 
the sides of the body and belly, which bands become 
* This is the Erytliura viridis of our “ Treatise on Orni- 
thology.” 
