MUNIA SPECTABILIS. 

 THE BLANCHE BAY MUNIA. 



PLATE VIII. (Fig. 3). 



Donacicola spectabilis, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, pp. 447, 449, 



pi. xxxvii. fig. 2. 

 Do7iacicola spectabilis^ Layard, Ibis, 1880, p. 297. 

 Donacicola spectabilis, Reichuw. et Schal. Journ. fiir Ornith. 1880, 



p. 203. 

 Donacicola spectabilis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xvi. 1880, p. 192. 

 Donacicola spectabilis, Salvad. Ornit. Papuasia, p. 441, 1881. 



Figure. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1879, pi. xxxvii. fig. 2. 



Habitat. New Britain. 



■' Brunnea ; pileo, nucha et capitis lateribus nigris ; tectricibus caudae 

 superioribus et rectricum mediariim marginibus pallide castaneis ; 

 subtus alba ; gula, ventre imo, et crisso cum femoribus nigris ; suba- 

 laribus ochraceo-albis ; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, tota 3"4, 

 aliE 1-8, caudaj 1-2 " (P. L. Sclater). 



Male. Crown of head, hind neck, cheeks, chin, and throat black, washed with grey ; mantle, 

 scapulars, and wings blackish-brown, edges of feathers brighter ; rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 centre tail-feathers, and outer edges of the rest glistening ochraceous brown, shaft-stripes 

 brown ; breast, sides, and belly white, tinged with bufl' in the centre ; axillaries, under 

 wing-coverts, and inner edges of primaries and secondaries buff; under tail-coverts 

 black ; "iris deep brown ; bill and feet black" (^Layard) : length 3-6, wing 1-95, tail 

 1-45, tarsus 0'6, culmen 0-45. 



Female. Similar, but the back is not so dark as in the male ; the breast and belly are 



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