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the remaining rectrices were worn (as they appear to be in Edwards' figure) 

 would appear to have a brownish tail. 



5. "The forepart of the neck has something of a purplish cast"; true of the 

 Indian race, not of the Javanese. 



6. "The rump is of a hghter greenish brown." The rump of the Indian bird 

 is decidedly yellowish or greenish, with faintly indicated darker markings as 

 shown on Edwards' plate. The rump of the Javanese bird is heavily barred 

 with dark gray and white, with no trace of yellowish or greenish. 



7. The edges of the white abdominal feathers are described and figured as 

 black; in the Javanese form these edges are dark brown, not black. 



8. "The middle of the belly, thighs, lower belly and covert-feathers under the 

 tail, are hght brown, or dirty white." Exactly true of the Indian race; the thighs 

 and under tail coverts of the Javanese race are white, heavily barred with dark 

 gray. 



The name of the Javanese race thus reverts to Lonchura punctulata 

 nisoria (Temminck) , while the Indian form is L. p. punctulata (Lin- 

 naeus). Stuart Baker gives the restricted type locaHty as Calcutta. 

 Hodgson's L. p. lineoventer from Nepal, used for the Indian race by 

 lOoss (1931), Stanford and Ticehurst (1938, p. 611), and others, is 

 a synonym of punctulata. 



L. p. topela (Swinhoe), with type locality Amoy, has customarily 

 been considered the form which occurs in the mountains of Yunnan 

 and northeastern Burma, although its status in the latter area has 

 been questioned (Smythies, 1953, p. 231). La Touche (1927, p. 

 295), under topela, states: "In eastern Yunnan it is represented by 

 another race, probably more closely akin to the Indian forms." All 

 of the literature on Yunnan birds I have been able to find, however, 

 lists the resident race as topela. The form found in most of Burma 

 except the northeastern section is L. p. subundulata (Godwin-Austin). 



In any case, the Yunnan-northeastern Biu-ma bird does differ from 

 topela, as might be anticipated on geographic grounds. The latter 

 race is found in Taiwan and Hainan, and in eastern China and north- 

 eastern Indochina. It is the second-palest of the races of L. punctu- 

 lata, being exceeded in this respect only by the Philippine race L. p. 

 cabanisi. 



The Yunnan bird may be described as follows : 



Lonchura punctulata yunnanensis, new subspecies 



Type: AMNH 720698; adult female; "hills around Tengyueh" 

 [=Tengchung], western Yunnan, alt. 6,000 feet; June 1924; George 

 Forrest, collector (original No. 5027). 



Diagnosis: Similar to L. p. topela (Swinhoe), but coloration 

 markedly richer; pencilling of ventral feathers darker and coarser; 

 dark throat-patch warmer, more reddish brown; dorsal coloration in 

 general browner, less gray, with, in many specimens, a greater con- 

 trast between the whitish shaft streaks and the ground color of the 



