342 plockidjH. 



the flanks rcjjularly barred with black and white ; thighs and under 

 tail-coverts black ; under wing-coverts buffy white, the edge of the 

 wing minutely barred with black and white ; wing-coverts above 

 eienna-brciwn ; quills light brown, externally washed with sienna- 

 brown, ashy brown below, edged with buff along the inner web : 

 "legs slate-colour; iris very dark " (^. Goldie). Total length 3'8 

 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2, tail 1"55, tarsus 0"6. 



Considerable difference is observable in a series with regard to 

 the amount of spotting on the head, but there never seems to be 

 the uniform ashy-brown appearance which is generally characteristic 

 of M. castaneithora.v. The sides of the face likewise are always 

 uniform, with no lines on the ear-coverts. 



Young. Nearly uniform brown above, the head rather more dusky 

 brown ; wing-coverts brown like the back, with slightly paler ends 

 to the median and greater series ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

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

 with the same colour as the back ; lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts 

 dark brown, the latter streaked with whity -brown shaft-lines ; base 

 of cheeks and chin ashy whitish ; throat dark brown, obscured by 

 whity-brown edges to the feathers ; remainder of under surface of 

 body pale tawny brown, lighter and more isabelline on the breast 

 and abdomen ; under tail-coverts isabelline, mottled with blackish 

 bases ; axillaries and under wing-coverts like the breast ; quills 

 dusky below, rufous along the inner web. 



Hah. South-eastern New Guinea. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Port Moresby. H. Broadbent [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Port Moresbv. O. C. Stone [C.]. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Port Moresby (Goldie). Goidd Coll. 

 /, g. Ad. ; /*. Juv. Port Moresby (Goldie). Forbes Coll. 



sk. 

 t. Ad. ; J<, I. Juv. Astrolabe Mountains. A. Goldie [C.]. 



sk. 

 tn. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mountains (Goldie). Tweeddale Coll. 



13. Munia spectabilis. 



Donacicola spectabilis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 449, pi. xxxvii. fig. 2 ; 

 id. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 66 ; Layard, Ibis, 1880, p. 297; Snlmd. Ann. 

 Mus. Genov. xvi. p. 192 (1880) ; Finsch, Ibis, 1881 , p. 537 ; S/mrpe, 

 in Gotdd'sB. New Guinea, iv. pi. 24 (1881) ; Salvad. Orn. Papuasia 

 etc. ii. p. 441 (1881), iii. App. p. 549 (1882); Finsch, Voy. der 

 Siidsee, p. 14 (1884). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above dusky chestnut, 

 shaded with blackish on the mantle, the rump paler cinnamon ; 

 upper tail-coverts golden yellow ; lesser and median wing-coverts 

 dull chestnut ; greater coverts and quills blacldsh, externally dull 

 chestnut ; tail-feathers externally chestnut and washed on the 

 outer web with golden yellow ; head and hind neck, sides of face, 

 sides of neck, and throat black ; remainder of under surface of body 

 from the lower throat downwards white ; sides of lower flanks, 



