2. Munia fascata. 



Loxia fuscata, Vieill. Ois. Chant, p. 95, pi. Ixii. (1805). 

 Coccothraustes fuscata, Vieill. N. Diet. d'JIist. Nat. xiii. p. 545 ( 1 81 7). 

 Amadina fuscata, Graj/, Gen. B. ii. p. 369 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 55, no. 6777 (1870). 

 Munia fuscata, B^y. Consi). Av. i. p. 451 (1850) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, 



p. 486 ; Bartlett, Monngr. of Weaver-Birds, part iii. (1889). 

 Oryzornis fuscata, Cah. Mus. Hein. i. p. 174, note (1850). 

 Padda fuscata, Reichenb. Singr. p. 43, pi. xv. fig. 140 (1861) ; Salvad. 



Vcc Born. p. 224 (1874). 

 Rpermestes fuscata, Buss, Stuhenv. p. 142 (1879). 



Adult male. Light chocolate-brown, inclining to dull ashy on the 

 lower rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts and inner secon- 

 daries a little duller chocolate than the back ; quills blackish brown, 

 externally washed with chocolate-brown ; tail-feathers blackish ; 

 crown of head dusky black, becoming chocolate-brown towards the 

 nape ; lores and eyelid black ; feathers below the eye, cheeks, and 

 ear-coverts white ; chin and upper throat black ; remainder of 

 throat, sides of neck, fore neck, and upper breast light chocolate- 

 brown ; the remainder of the under surface of the body white, 

 which is separated from the brown chest by a band of black ; under 

 wing-coverts white ; quills dusky below, ashy isabelline along the 

 inner web. Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-45, 

 tail 1-65, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 4 7 inches, 

 culmen 0-o5, wing 2-45, tail 1-6, tarsus 0-7. 



Hah. Timor. 



a, b, c. Ad. sk. 



d. 5 ad. sk. 



e. $ ad. sk. 

 /'. Ad. sk. 

 g. c? ad. sk. 



E. Timor. 

 Seniao, Timor. 

 Timor Coupong. 

 Timor {Wallace). 

 Timor. 



3. Munia malacca. 



Wallace Coll. 

 Wallace Coll. 

 Wallace Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Forbes Coll. 



The Chinese Sparrow, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. ii. p. 49. pi. 53. fig. 1, 



nee fig. 2 (1738). 

 White-breasted Indian SpaiTOW, Edicards, Gleanings, iii. p. 301, 



pi. 355. fig. 2 (1764). 

 I.e Gros-bec de Java, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 237, pi. xiii. fig. 1 (1760). 

 Loxia malacca, Liiin. Sgst. Nat. i. p. 302 (1766) ; Gm. Sgsf. Nat. i. 



p. 851 (1788). 

 Le Jacobin, Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 468 (1775); Tieili. Ois. 



Chant, p. 83, pi. 52 (1805). 



