MUNI A PALLIDA. 

 THE PALLID MUNIA. 



PLATE VII. (Fig. 4). 



Munia jjalUda, Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, pp. 486, 495. 

 Amadina pallida, Gray, Hand-List Bird.s, ii. p. 54 (1870). 

 Amadina pallida, Blasius, Journ. fiir Ornith. 1883, p. 125. 



English. The Pallid or Celebcan White-headed Munia. 



Habitat. Celebes. Lombok and Flores ( Wallace). 



" Rufo-cinerea, subtus pallide rufa ; capite colloque albis, pectore 

 albescente, crisso caudaqne rufo-castaneis, nropygio et caudte 

 tectricibus superioribns intense sericeo-castaneis " ( Wallace). 



Adult. " Above rufous ash ; beneath pale rufous ; head and neck white ; breast tinged 

 with rosy ash ; tail and under tail coverts dark rufous ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 glossy chestnut brown ; bill and feet blue-lead ; iris dark : length i^ inches, wing 2^ 

 inches " ( Wallace). 



Female. Similar. 



Observ. Mr. Wallace states that this bird is "very near Munia maja (L.), but differs in 

 the much paler colouring of both the upper and under surface." 



The Pallid Munia is an insular form which so closely resembles the White- 

 headed Munia, that I doubt whether it can really be separated, although I 

 give it as distinct, on the authority of Mr. A. R. Wallace who discovered 

 it in Celebes. 



The three pale-headed birds here described verge one into the other in 



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