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B. Plocei/g meijarhiiiiihiia Humh'. 



Plorcn.-i nu'qurhiiiirhii^ IIliihc, Str(ui Fcnth. iii. 187."). p. 4ii(; ( Knhuldoii^i In-low 

 Naini Tal»). 



Owing to Hniue's types licinu- young or in winter ilrcss this remarkable species 

 was ooiifonnded with the following one, until Finn (//>/»• 1901 p. 21). pi. I.) 

 established its validity. There is a very fine adult viali'. (from the Calcutta market, 

 bought alive, locality not known) in the Tring Museum. Probably this rare 

 "Weaver inhabits some unhealthy Terai forest which has not yet been exjilorei], and 

 where, jierhaps, the remarkable I'aldcornix intennediun Kothsc'hild, along with still 

 unknown sjieeies, may live. 



IJab. Only known with certainty ii-om near Naini Tal. 



C. Plocens /Hisxerinns jjn/ssrr/inis lieichenow. 



riorexs bai/a Blyth, Jonrii. .l.s. Soc. Bi'iKjal xiii. 1844. p. '.i4.T, in the text 

 (Name given to the birds brought l)y Hodgson from Nepal, therefore doubtless the 

 present species. Nomen nudum !) 



Plnreus ntriyxla and PI. pns.irr/ii/t't Hodgs., fern/, iiirf/. hi Mas. Ilrit. (MS.), \u 

 Gray's Zool. Misr. p. 84. 1844. descr. nulla !). 



PlocrKs pfisxi'riiii/s Reichenow, Zool. .hilirli. i. lss(i. p. ].")(; (dcser. oiitinui, ex 

 Hodgson's M.S.). 



Plocens atrii/iilii Sharpe, Cut. II. xiii. Isiiii. p. 4'.il (N('|ial — ex Hodgs. MS. 

 and nom. nud. !). 



Plon'u.s meijnrhijiirhiiii Oatcs {errorc! ucr Hume 1), li. India ii. IsOd. p. 17G. 



Keichenow's name must be used, as he first described our bird under the name 

 P. jMti.HeiiHu.%, rejecting bai/a as barbaric! The names atriijahi and passcrinus of 

 Hodgson were nomina nuda. 



Wing 7.'i — 77 mm. 



Huh. India, Dhoon, throughout Lower lliniahiyas, IJengal to Assam. 



\). Ploceus jjcis.vriiiti.'i infortniHtlUK subsp. nov. i 



Praecedenti similis sed minor. Alis O'.i— 7H mm. 



Ihtb. Malay Peninsula (typus Sungei Lebeh 19. v. I'-iiil), to Tenasserini and 

 Burma, Sumatra (Sumatran skins in immature dress from Lampong, in the British 

 Museum, seem to belong to this form, but it is doubtful if Bernstein obtained this 

 bird on Mt. Gedeh, and if the specimens in the British Museum came from Java. 

 The two skins z^ and c' in the list of spcciiueus in the "Catalogue of Birds" are 

 (piite unreliable, and are evidently not from .lava, and also (d and I? may be doubted. 

 .lava is therefore not cstalilislied as a liome of this I'orm, and 1 do not believe that 

 it occnrs there.) 



192. Munia leucogastra (Ulyih). 



Am.fi<lina leiicoiiustra Blyth, .Jonni. A.'i. iSor. IUjik/. xv. (1840) p. 280 (Malayan 

 Peninsula"). 



fT ad. Simgei Ijebeh, 29. v. I9iil. 



* Naini Tal is a town in Kuinaon, tliou^'li liciclienow (Zool. Jalirh. i., p. 157) writes "im Naineu- 

 Tliale," which means in tbe Nainee Valley. 



