in the autumn resume their plain appearance, which resembles
Huil of tin' IVmale.
In Pimm* (ho bill is thick with the culinen curved, and the length of the bill is considerably more than its height ; the wings are of moderate length, and the first primary is as long as the larsus, and slightly curved inwards; the tail is short and moderately rounded, of twelve feathers; the tarsus is strong and scutellated, and the claws are of considerable length.
Key to the Species.
. Crown of head yellow (breeding-males). '. Breast yellow P. baya, p. 175. //. Breast fulvous P. mcr/arhi/nchus, p. 176. c'. Breast black, or black with fulvous fringes P. bengalensis, p. 177. d'. Breast fulvous, boldly streaked with black ' P. manyar, p. 179. b. Crown of head brown (females at all seasons and males in winter). , p b 17g e'. Lower plumage plain fulvous j p J^ ljnchu ^ p> 17G /'. Breast black, or black fringed with fulvous P. bengalensis, p. 177. g . Breast boldly streaked with black .... P. manyar, p. 179.
720. Ploceus baya[1]. The Baya.
? Loxia philippina, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 305 (17CG). Ploceus baya, Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xiii, p. 945 (1844) ; Harsf. $ M. Cat. ii, p. 515 (part.) ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 343 (part.) ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 167 ; Hume, N. 8f E. p. 436 (part.) ; id. $ Jhir. S. F. vi, p. 399 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 488 ; Gates in Hume's N. # E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 114.
Ploceus philippinus (Linn.), Blyth, Cat. p. 115 (part.) ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 641 ; Hume, Cat. no. 694; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 1>.V..
The Common 1'ram--lird (Jerdon) ; Baya, Hind.; Chindora, Hind, in Bengal ; Bawi, Talbabi, Bong. ; Parsnpu-jntta, Tel. ; Manja-kuravi, Tarn. ; Tkucker&m /.///////, Tarn, in Ceyl. ; Tatta kurula, Wada kurulla, Ceyl.
Coloration. Male. After the autumn moult the whole upper plumage is fulvous streaked with blackish brown, the streaks be- coming obsolete on the lower rum]) and upper tail-coverts ; wing- coverts, quills, and tail dark brown, each feather edged with fulvous, the edges of the primaries and tail-feathers also being tinged with greenish; a clear fulvous supercilium ; sides of the
head pale fulvous-brown; the whole lower plumage fulvous,
- ↑ Linnieus's name, even if it applied to the Continental race of Weaver-bird, which is very doubtful, is inappropriate, as no bird of this genus is known to occur in the Philippine Islands. I prefer, therefore, to follow Sh.-irpe in adopting Blyth's vrll-knovn name for this species.
