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Amadina ruhronigi-a, Kelaart, Prod. Birds Ceylon, p. 126, Append. 



C. (1852) ; Kelaai't et Layard, Jouni. Ceyl. A. Soc. 1853 ; Layard, 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. 1854, p. 258 ; Scully, Stray Feathers, 



1879, p. 332. 

 Spermestes atricapilla, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 49 (1854). 

 Munia sinensis, Reiclib. Singvogel, p. 39. pi. xiv. figs. 123-124 



(1861). 

 Donacola atricapilla, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 171. 

 Amadina atricapilla, Gray, Hand-List Birds, ii. p. 54 (1870). 

 Munia atricapilla, Salvad. Uccelli di Borneo, p. 265 (1874) ; Hume, 



Nests and Eggs, ii. p. 444 (1875) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1876, p. 50 ; id. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 344, 1881, p. 798 ; Kutter, Journ. fur 



Ornitb. 1885, p. 352. 

 Munia rubrinigra, Tweedd. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 764. 

 Spermestes sinensis, Russ, Stubenvogel, p. 167, pi. vi. fig. 30 (1879). 



Figures. Vieill. Ois. Chant, pi. liii. Motl. and DiUw. Nat. Hist. 

 Labuan, pi. vi. Reichb. Singvogel, pi. xiv. figs. 123-124. 

 Russ, Stubenvogel, pi. vi. fig. 30. 



Englisli. Bed-hlaxh Weaver-finch. Chestnut-bellied Munia. Black and 

 Bed Munia. Black-headed Nun. 



French. Le Jacobin roux-noir, Le Mungid. Le Gros-bec Mungul. 



German. Bothschwarze Munia. Die schwarzkopfige Nonnen-Amadine. 



Pora Munia ; Nuk-roul at Mussouri (Blyth). 



Habitat. India ; extending its range to the Himalayas, Nepal, Burmah, 

 Ceylon, Labuan, and Borneo. 



MaJe. Head, neck, upper part of breast, mesial band, flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts 

 black ; ■whole of back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and outer edges of -wings cinnamon 

 brown, palest on the mantle ; primaries and secondaries pale brown ; lower part of 

 rump and upper tail-coverts glistening maroon, tips of the latter and outer edges of the 

 rectrices glistening orange ; tail-feathers dark brown ; chest and sides of body dark 

 cinnamon-brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts yellowish-buff, inner webs buff; 

 iris brown ; bill translucent silvery white, bluish at the base : length 4-3, wing 21, 

 tail rS, tarsus 0'63, culmen 0'5. 



