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English. Little Mania. Jagors Mimia. Philippine Munia. 

 French. Le Petit Jacobin. 

 German. Der Heine Munia. 



Habitat. Philippine Archipelago. Luzon (Meyen et Jagm-) ; Zebu 

 and Halmahera {Meyer) ; Mindanao (Challenge)' Expedition) ; Am- 

 paro, S. Leyte, N. Bohol, Zamboanga, Valencia, Dumaquete, Butuan, 

 Placer, San Mateo and Island of Negros (Everett) ; Sulu Island 

 (Guillemard). 



Male. Crown of head, nape, and cheeks black-brownish ; chin, throat, mesial stripe, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts black ; mesial stripe united to the black of the breast, and 

 gradually expanding on the belly ; back, wings and sides of body chestnut -brown ; 

 lower part of rump and upper tail-coverts glistening maroon ; centre tail-feathers and 

 outer edges of the rest glistening ferruginous ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 yellowish-buff; under surface of wing brownish-buff; iris reddish-brown; "bill ash- 

 blue ; legs slate colour : length 11 '0 cent., wing 5'0 cent." {Guillemard). 



Female. Similar, but with the black mesial stripe slightly divided on the breast by a 

 narrow chestnut band, as in Munia atricapilla, but less decided. 



Young. Similar in every particular to that of Munia atricapilla, but smaller. 



Observ. This species has been separated from the rest on very trifling differences, which I 

 think are insufficient to divide it from the Celebean form, although I have retained the 

 synonymy and figured it. 



The head in both sexes is brownish-black ; the black mesial stripe in the male is very 

 broad, covers the whole of the abdomen, and is united to the black of the breast. In the 

 female a narrow band of chestnut divides the mesial stripe from the black of the breast. 



" The male is larger than the female, and of richer colouring, the head being very 

 nearly black, and the brown of the body a deeper chestnut. The union of the abdominal 

 dark line with the same colour of the throat does not appear to be of any value as a 

 characteristic of the sex " (Guillemard). 



This Philippine form is much smaller than Munia atricapilla. 



Some doubt exists as to whether Fringilla mlnnta, which was described 

 and figured by Meyen in 1834, is referable to the bird described by Dr. 

 Cabanis in 1872, under the name Dermoplwys jagori. Having closely 



