32. MTJNiA. 343 



thighs, and under tail-coverts black; under wing-corerts pale fawn- 

 colour ; quills dusky below, fulvescent along the inner web. Total 

 length 3'4 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 1'85, tail 1'2, tarsus 0-6. 



Adult female. Paler than the male, with less dusky black on the 

 mantle and back, the wing-coverts like the back, with pale creamy- 

 buff tips to the median wing-coverts ; greater coverts and quilla 

 dusky blackish, externally dull chestnut ; lower rump and iipper 

 tail-coverts pale chestnut, not golden ; tail-feathers brown ; head 

 dusky brown, streaked with black in the centres of the feathers ; 

 sides of fkce and ear-coverts black with whitish shaft-streaks ; throat 

 ashy whitish, with blackish bases to the feathers ; remainder of 

 under surface of body pale fawn-buff : " bill and feet black ; iris 

 hrown " (G. E. liichards). Total length 3-5 inches, culmen 0"45, 

 wing 2, tail 1-2, tarsus 0-6. 



Hab. New Britain. 



a, b. Ad. sk. New Britain. Rev. G. Brown [C.]. 



(Types of species.) 



c. c? ad. sk. New Britain, Nov. 3, 1880 (J)r. Tweeddale Coll. 



0. Fmsch). 



d, e, cf $ ad. sk. Blanche Bay, New Britain, Forbes Coll. 



June 16 (<?. E. Richards). 

 fi 9- c? $ ad. sk. New Britain. Dr. Klein?chuiidt 



[C.]. 



14. Munia forbesi. 



Munia forbesi, Sd. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 449, pi. xxxvii. fig. 8 ; Salvad. 

 Ann. Mus. Genov. xvi. p. 192 (1880) ; Sharpe in GouhVs B. New 

 Guinea, iv. pi. 23 (1881); Sahad. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 438 

 (1881), iii. App. p. 549 (1882). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour about light chest- 

 nut, the lower rump and upper tail-coverts deep golden yellow ; 

 wing-coverts like the back, the quills dusky brown, externally 

 chestnut ; tail-feathers chestnut, externally golden, the outer ones 

 dusky, edged with golden ; crown of head and nape, sides of face, 

 ear-coverts, and throat black ; rest of under surface of body from 

 the lower throat downwards pale cinnamon-rufous ; sides of lower 

 flanks, thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts black ; under wing- 

 coverts pale fawn-colour ; quills dusky brown, pale rufous along 

 the inner web. Total length 4*2 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 2-05, 

 tail 1-45, tai'sus 0'6. 



Hah. New Ireland. 



a. (S ad. sk. Topaia, New Ireland, Sept. 1878. Rev. G. Brown [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



15. Munia luelaBiia. 



Munia melfena, Sol. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 06, pi. vii. tig. 2 ; Salvad. Ann. 



Mils. Oenov. xvi. p. 192 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 439 



(1881). 

 Munia hemimelaena, Scl. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 66 (lapsu). 



Adult (type of species). Black above, washed with chocolate on 



