34-4 PLOCEID.?:. 



the mantle and back, the lower back and rump chocolate-brown, 

 the latter washed with chestnut; upper tail-coverts deep golden 

 yellow, with a chestnut tinge ; tail-feathers blackish, externally 

 golden yellow ; lesser wing-coverts blackish like the back ; re- 

 mainder of wing-coverts and quills brown, edged with blackish ; 

 entire head, sides of face, and under surface of body black, the centre 

 of the abdomen very pale cinnaraon-buff, the sides and flanks 

 cinnamon-buif, tipped or barred with black ; lower abdomen, thighs, 

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

 buff. Total length 4-3 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-05, tail 1-3, 

 tarsus 0"65. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 4-1 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 2-15, tail 1*45, tarsus 0-65. 



Hab. New Britain. 



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



(Type of species.) 

 b,c. J 2 ad. sk. New Britain, Nov. 1880. Dr. 'Kleinschmidt [C.]. 



1 6. Munia grandis. 



Munia grandis, Sharpe, Lhm. So". Journ., Zool. xvi. pp. 319, 442 

 (1882) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. xviii. p. 426 (1882) ; id. Orn. 

 Papuasia etc. iii. App. p. 549 (1882) ; Sharpe in Goidd's B. New 

 Guinea, iv. pi. 22 (1883). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above light bay, the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts shining straw-yeUow ; least and median 

 coverts like the back ; greater coverts darker and more chestnut ; 

 primary-coverts and quills dusky brown, externally chestnut, the 

 innermost secondaries entirely of the latter colour ; central tail- 

 feathers straw-yellow, dark brown along the middle ; remainder of 

 tail-feathers edged with straw-j^ellow ; entire head and neck all 

 round jet-black, as well as the breast and entire under surface, with 

 the exception of a patch of light chestnut on the sides of the breast 

 and upper flanks ; under wing-coverts and axillaries light reddish, 

 the lower series ashy rufous ; quills dusky brown below, ashy rufous 

 along the edge of the inner web. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0-5, 

 wing 2-2, tail 1-55, tarsus 0-65. 



Hah. South-eastern New Guinea. 



a. (S ad. sk. Astrolabe Mountains, S.E. A. Goldie [C.]. (Type 



New Guinea. of species.) 



17. Munia hunsteini. 



Donacicola hunsteini, Finsch, Ibis, 1886, p. 1, pi. i. ; Sharpe in Gould's 

 B. New Gtiinea, iv. pi. 26 (1888). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above black, the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts chestnut with a wash of golden yellow ; wing- 

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

 quills rather paler blackish brown edged with golden ; tail-feathers 



