Lead-coloured; head and tail black; bill red; belly obscure rosy; ears (in the male) snowy. Loxia oryzivora. _Gm._ I. 302. _Lath. Ind. Orn._ 1. 380. _Gen. Zool._ 9. 2. 316. _Brisson_, 1. 374. 7. Java Grosbeak. _Lath. Syn._ 3. 129. _Supp._ 151. _Gen. Zool._ 9. 316. _pl._ 51. * * * * * This elegant bird has been so distorted, in the representations given of it by the older ornithologists, that little apology is thought necessary for introducing more accurate figures of both sexes in this publication. It is said to inhabit the Cape and various parts of India, causing much damage to the rice plantations, and is frequently brought to this country alive. The figure is of the size of life, the bill bright red, but whitish towards the tip; it is very strong, thickened round the basal margins, and forms a sharp angle between the frontal feathers: the nostrils are small, round, and placed _behind_ the thick margin of the bill, and not on its outer surface. Legs flesh-coloured; the orbits are said to be red in the live bird. I have followed the example of Illiger and Temminck in uniting the greatest part of the Linnaean Loxiae and Fringillae under the latter genus, retaining only the Cross-bills under the former. * * * * * Pl. 157 [Illustration] AMPULLARIA effusa, _Ribbon Apple Snail._ * * * * * GENERIC CHARACTER.--See Pl. 103. * * * * * SPECIFIC CHARACTER. _A. testa globosa, laevi, fasciis purpureo-fuscis cincta; spira depressa, apice prominente; apertura angusta; umbilico magno, profundo; columella obsoleta._ Shell globose, smooth, with purple brown bands; spire depressed, the tip prominent; aperture narrow; umbilicus large, deep; pillar obsolete. Helix glauca. _Linn. Dillw._ 918. Helix ampullucea, (_var._ [gamma]) _Gmelin_, 3626. Bulimus effusus. _Brug._ _p._ 296. _No._ 1. _Lister_, 129. 29. _Seba_, _tab._ 38. _f._ 39. _tab._ 40. _f._ 3. 4. 5. (_optime_.) _Martini_, 9. _tab._ 129. _f._ 1144-5. _Knorr_, 4. _tab._ 5. _f._ 3. _Lam. Syst._ 6. 2. _p._ 178. 5. * * * * *