AET. 16. BIRDS FROM NORTH CELEBES RILEY. 101 



atricapillu hnmneicaps when laid out in series alongside Munia 

 Ojtricapilla jagori seems to have the black breast patch more re- 

 stricted, the head probably averages a little browner black, and there 

 is more of a tendency for the edges of the tail feathers to become yel- 

 lowish above ; there appears to be no difference in size. Individuals 

 can be picked out of either series that almost match in coloration 

 and size. Specimens from northern Luzon have the black of the 

 head shade off into smoky brown on the nape, and these have been 

 assigned to the Formosan form Munia atricapilla fonnosana. That 

 both the above are only subspecies of Munia atricapilla, there can be 

 little doubt. Stresemann ^^ has called attention to the fact that 

 Fringilla minuta Meyen^^ is the young of Munia atricapilla jagori 

 Martens,®^ and has advocated the adoption of Meyen's name on the 

 ground of priority, but he has overlooked the fact that Fringilla 

 minuta Temminck,^^* which appears to be a synonym of Fringilla 

 flavirostris Linnaeus. {Acanthis flavirostris Authors), would pre- 

 clude such action. 



There are fully grown young without any sign of molting into 

 the adult plumage taken as late as December 25, and others that 

 have begun to molt into the aditlt dress as early as October 23. 

 As a matter of fact, the breeding period is probably a long one. 

 and the young doubtless molt into the adult plumage the first season. 

 The only spring bird showing any trace of the immature plumage is 

 a female taken March 11. This specimen is in worn plumage and 

 has not as yet fully acquired the black breast of the adult. 



Mathews ^^ unites Munm Hodgson ^^ with Lonchura Sj'kes,^^ for 

 which Cabanis*^ substituted Uroloncha, Lonchura being preoccupied 

 and designated as its type, Loxia molucca Linnaeus. If Munia and 

 Vroloneha are united, and I think they should be, then Munia is 

 the name to use. 



189. MUNIA PUNCTULATA PARTICEPS Riley.so 



One immature and four adult males, and one immature female, 

 Rano Lindoe, March 15-25, 1917 ; two immature males and one im- 

 mature female, Gimpoe, August 6-20, 1917; one adult female, Toewo 

 Mountain, Besoa, November 2, 1917; two adult females, Napoe, 

 Watoetaoe, November 20, and December 4, 1917. 



" Orn. Monats., vol. 30, 1922, p. 88. 



82 Verb. Carol.-Leopold. Akad. d. Natur., vol. 16, suppl., prim., 1834, p. 86, pi 12, flg. 2. 



«.Iouni. f. Oni., 1866, p. 14. 



" Cat. Sys. Cab. Orn., 1807, errata to p. 112. 



« List Birds Australia, 1913, p. 300. 



«« Asiatic Research., vol. 19, 1836, p. 153. 



" Proc. Zool. Sec. Lond., 1832, p. 94. 



8s Mus. Hein., vol. 1, 1851, p. 173. 



8" Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 33, 1920, p. 57 (Rano Lindoe). 



