3-10 ?XOCEID^. 



lead-colonr ; iris dark " (A. R. Wallace). Total length 4-5 inches, 

 culmcn 0-5, wing 2-05, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 4-3 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 2, tail 1'3, tarsus 0-65. 



Hab. Lombock. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Lombock. Wallace Coll. 



h. tS ad. sk. Lombock {A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



11. Munia castaneithorax. 



Amadina castaneothorax, Gould, Sijn. B. Austr. pt. ii. (1837) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. ii. p. 370 (1849) ; id. Uand-l. B. ii. p. 55, no. 6767 (1870). 

 Donacola castaneothorax, Gould, B. Austr. fol. iii. pi. 94 (1848) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 453 (1850) ; Beichenb. Voq. Neuholl. p. 118 (1850); 



id. Singe, p. 27, Taf. viii. figs. 72, 74 (1862); Gould, Handb. B. 



Austr.' \. p. 426 (1865); JRamsay, Proe. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W.i. 



p. 54 (1877); id. eyp. cit. ii. p. 187 (1878). 

 Donac<:)la bivittata, Beichenh. Singv. p. 28, Taf. viii. fig. 75 (1862). 

 Amadina bivittata, Gray, Hand-l. B ii. p. 55, do. 6769 (1869). 

 Donacicola castaneothorax, Sharpe, Rep. Voy. ' Alert^ p. 21 (1884) ; 



Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 1147 (1887) ; id. List 



Austr. B. p. 10 (1888). 



Adult male. General colour above cinnamon-brown, the feathers 

 obscured by their ashy tips ; lower rump and upper tail-coverts 

 glossy straw-colour ; wing-coverts cinnamon-brown, tipped with 

 ashy like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 dusky brown, edged with cinnamon-brown ; centre tail-feathers 

 straw-colour, the rest dusky brown with yellowish or light brown 

 margins ; crown of head and hind neck more dusky than the back, 

 and obscured by ashy tips to all the feathers ; lores, eyebrow, sides 

 of face, and ear-coverts blackish, with tiny brown shaft- lines ; cheeks 

 and throat also blackish, with less distinct pale shaft-lines ; sides of 

 neck, fore neck, and chest pale cinnamon, followed by a black band 

 across the breast, which is white like the abdomen ; sides of body 

 cinnamon, with some white and black bars, the feathers having a 

 subterminal white bar between two black ones ; flanks, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale 

 cinnamon-buff; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. 

 Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2*15, tail 1-45, tarsus 0-6. 



Adult female. Scarcely to be distinguished from the male, except 

 by a slightly paler coloration and by the black markings on the 

 flanks less pronounced. Total length 4-3 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 

 2-15, tail 1'15, tarsus Goo. 



Young. Nearly uniform brown above, a little dusky on the 

 head, and slightly more fulvous on the lower back and rump ; 

 wing-coverts like the back ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 uniform dusky brown ; quills and tail-feathers dusky brown, edged 

 with pale brown like the back, the centre tail-feathers somewhat 

 olive in tint : lores dusky blackish ; ear-coverts and sides of face 

 brown, with whitish shaft-lines ; throat ashy whitish, mottled with 



