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cheeks, and sides of neck ashy grey ; throat and fore neck light 

 pearly grey ; breast and abdomen whitish, with a slight tiuge of red 

 on the latter ; sides of body and flanks ashy grey ; thighs and under 

 tail-eoverts also ashy grey ; under wing-coverts ashy, the lower ones 

 pale isabelline ; axillaries ashy ; quills below dusky, ashy along the 

 inner edge : " bill scarlet ; legs dark horny ; iris light brown " ( W. 

 A. Forbes). Total length 3*8 inches, culmen 0*35, wing l*8i), tail 

 1*6, tarsus 0'5. 



Mab. West Africa, from Senegambia to Angola. 



a. Ad. st. 



b. Ad. sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d. Ad. sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 

 /. Ad. sk. 



ff. c? ad. sk. 

 k. Ad. sk. 

 t. Ad. sk. 

 k. Ad. sk. 

 /. cJ ; ni, n. 2 ad. 

 sk. 



West Africa. 



Senegal (L. Laglaize). 



River Gambia {A. Marche). 



Fantee {A. Swanzy). 



Fantee. 



Abrobonko, Fantee, Jan. 30 



{G. E. S.). 

 Shonga, R. Niger {W. A. F.). 

 Lokoja, R. Niger ( W. A. F.). 

 Gaboon. 



Gaboon (Du Chailht). 

 Landana, Congo (i. Petit). 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Sharps Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Forbes Coll. 

 Forbes Coll. 

 Purchased. 

 Forbes CoU. 

 Shelley Coll. 



32. MUNIA. 



Type. 

 Lonchura, Si/kes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 94 {nee Schdn. 



1801) M. punctulata. 



Mania, Hodgs. Asiaf. Researches, xix. p. 153 (1836). M. atricapilla. 



Dermophrys, Hudgs. J. A. S. Beng. x. p. 28 (1841). . M. atricapilla. 



Donacola, Gould, B. Ausfr. iii. pi. 94 (1842) M. castaneiceps. 



Oxycerca, Grag, List Gen. B., App. p. 10 (1842) . . M. punctulata. 



Padda, Rekhenh. 8yst. Nat. Taf. Ixxvi. fig. 6 (1850). . M. oryzivora. 



Maia, Reiehenh. Syst. Nat. Taf. Ixxvii. fig. 7 (1850). . M. maja. 



Oryzornis, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 174 (1850) .... M. orjzivora. 



Diachmura, Reiehenh. Singv. p. 48 (1861) M. quinticolor. 



Tail uf Munia punctrdata. 



Range. Indian Peninsula and Ceylon ; Indo-Chinese Region ; 

 Malayan Peninsula ; Indo-ilalayan Islands and Timor, Flores, 

 Lombock, to the Papuan Islands and Australia. 



