F emale. The female differs in having a mixture of white on the throat
and fore part of the neck ; and the belly of a pale yellow colour :
but in other things refembles the male.
P lace. Inhabits Bengal, Java, Malacca, and other parts of Afia.
82.
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D escription.
F emale.
Place.
Fringilla Amandava, Lin. Syß. i. p. 319. 10. ...
Le Bengalis brun, Brij. orn. iii. p. 205. 61. pi. 10. f. 3*—Bif. oif. iv. p. 95.
— PI. ml. 115. f. 2.
Lev. Muf. a
tnp H I S is very little bigger than a Wren: the length under
four inches. The bill is reddilh: general colour of the
plumage brown, deepeft on the belly; in fome birds mixed with
a little white on the breaft, and a little reddilh in others: on
many of the wing coverts is a fpot of white juft at the tip : tail
dulky black: legs pale yellow.
The female * is of an uniform brown colour, and the wing
coverts not (potted with white.
Inhabits Bengal.
' Fringilla Senegala, Lin. Syß. i. p. 320. I'S.
I SENEGAL F. be Senegali rouge, BriJ. orn. iii. p. 208. 63. pi. 10. f. 2.—Buß. oif. iv. p. 99.
PI. enl. 157. f. 1.
D escription, T 1 H I S is very little bigger than a Wren : length four inches
three quarters. The bill reddilh, edged all. round with
brown ; and beneath the under mandible a line of brown quite to
the tip ; the fame alfo is feen on the ridge of the upper mandible:
* Whether thofe faid to be females, of this and the lall, are really fo, is doubtful,
£nce they change colour every moult. See Hiß. dee oif. ii. p. 79.
the
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the upper part of the head, throat, fore part and fides of the
neck, breaft, and upper part of the belly, fideS, rump, and upper
tail coverts, are of a vinaceous red colour: the lower part of the
belly, thighs, and under tail coverts, greenilh brown: the hind
part of the head and neck, the back, fcapulars, and wing cove.ts,
are brown • the tail black: the legs pale grey. ^
This inhabits Senegal. Buffon mentions one of thefe having
been killed at Cayenne; but it is moft likely that it had been a
eao-ed bird : it was a trifle different from the above-defcribed, as
’the wings were lightly edged with red, and the bill entirely of
the laft colour: the legs reddilh : it had alfo the breaft and fides
fpotted with white. There is likewife mentioned one brought
from Abyjfmia, by M. Bruce, which he calls Ddnbik, in which
the red covered the neck and wing coverts, as well as the under
parts; and it was fpotted on the fides of the breaft and wing coverts
with white.
Buffon obferves, that thefe birds do not change the feathers
more than once in a year in this climate, though they do in their
native one : however this may be, I have now one of this laft
fpecies by me, which has not a fingle fpot upon it, and was once
full of them : it belonged to a young lady of my acquaintance,
to whom it was given, two or three years fince, along with another,
as Amaduvades. The firft did not live long ; the other died
without even the trace of a white fpot; and Ihe affured me,
that it had white fpots at one time of the year, and at another
none. I cannot fay that this circumftance I faw myfelf, but I
have no reafon to difbelieve it.
The Bengalis and Senegalis, as they are called, are natives of
Senegal, and feed on Millet. This affords the natives an eafy
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