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Figure. Edwards, Nat. Hist, Birds, i. pi. 43, male (1743). 



Dutch. Jacohijn. 



English, Chinese Sparrow. Malacca Grosbeak, variety. Chinese, or 

 Chestnut and black-headed Jacobin or Munia. Black-headed Finch. 

 Chestnut-bellied Finch, or Munia. 



French. Le Gros-bec de la Chine. Capucin a tete noire. Le Gros-bec 

 Mungid. Le Jacobin de la Chine. 



German. Dcr chinesische Sperling. Die chinesische Munia. Dcr 

 Mungal, Mongole oder Chinese. 



Habitat. Java and Sumatra. Pinang (Can/on) ; Sumatra {Baffles); 

 mtroduced into China (Swinhoe). 



Hale. Head, neck, and upper part of breast black, slightly glossed ; rest of upper and 

 under parts cinnamon-brown, paler on the mantle ; lower part of rump glistening 

 maroon ; upper tail-coverts edged with glistening ferruginous ; tail-feathers pale 

 cinnamon, edged with ferruginous ; wings like the back ; lower part of abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts very faintly tinged with darker cinnamon brown ; iris dark brown ; 

 bill translucent silvery white, blue at the base ; feet plumbeous : length 3-65, wing 1-95, 

 tail 1-4.5, tars. 0-6, culm. 0-4. 



Female. Similar, but without the tinge of darker cinnamon brown on the abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts. 



Young. Very pale rufous bro^vn ; chin, throat, and abdomen buffish-white. 



Observ. In some specimens of this species the tinge of dark cinnamon-browu on the 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts is rather more decided than in others ; but the absence 

 of the black mesial stripe -will always determine the species. It is decidedly much 

 smaller than Munia atricapilla. The young of the various species of this group are so 

 alike, it is with great difficulty that they can be separated. 



Tins Munia, which is well figured and described by Edwards in his 

 ' Natural History of Birds,' published in 1743, under the name of ' Chinese 

 Sparrow,' is without doubt the same species which Brisson characterized in 

 his ' Ornithologie,' published in 17G0, as Coccothrausies sinensis. The 

 absence of the black mesial band and black under taQ-coverts in the 

 present species is a well-marked distinction, which separates it at once from 



