"^■ItJ PLOCEID^. 



Munia fla\-iprymna, Goxdd, Handh. B. Amtr. i. p. 428 (1866) ; 

 Eamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 87 (1878) ; id. Tab. List 

 Austr. B. p. 10 (1888). 



Adult male. Chestnut-brown : upper tail-coverts golden ochre ; 

 tail-feathers brown, with straw-coloured margins: scapulars and 

 wing-coverts chestnut-brown like the back ; quills dusky brown, 

 externally edged with chestnut ; head all round hoary grey, whiter 

 on the throat ; under surface of body creamy buff, tinged with 

 fawn-colour on the breast ; thighs brown, spotted Avith white ; 

 under tail-coverts black ; under wing-coverts and quill-lining isa- 

 belline buff: "iris dark brown" (J. R. Eheif, iMSS.). Total 

 length 4-3 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-2, tail 1-35, tarsus 0-6. 



Hah. Northern Australia, from Port Essington to the Victoria 

 River, 



«• Ad. sk. N.W. Australia. J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



20. Munia pallida. 

 Munia pallida, Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, pp. 486, 495. 

 Donacola paUida, Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 175 (1865). 

 Aniadiua pallida, Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 54, no. 6755 (1870). 



Adult male. Light brown, with maroon on the rump ; the 

 head all round, throat, and chest white, suffused with a slight 

 brown shade, the sides of the fore neck and chest rather pearly 

 grey; breast and abdomen bright tawny buff; the under tail- 

 coverts chestnut; no black on the under surface: "bill and feet 

 light blue ; iris dark " {A. R. Wallace). Total length 4-2 inches, 

 culmen O'o, wing 2-1, tail 1-15, tarsus 0-6. 



Adxdt female. Similar to the male but paler in colour. Total 

 length 3-9 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2, tail 1-25, tarsus 0-6. 



I/ah. Lombock and Flores. 



a,b.cS2 ad. ; c. Lombock. Wallace Coll. 



Juv. sk. (Tj-pes of species.) 



d. cJ nd.; e.Jnv.sk. Lomhock (A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



f. d ad. sk. Flores. Wallace Coll. 



21 . Munia pnnctulata. 



The Chinese Sparrow (9), AUii7i, Nat. Hist. B. ii. p. 49, pi. 53. 



fig. 2 (1738). 

 The Gowry Bird, Edumrds, Nat. Hist. B. i. p. 40. pi. 40 (1743). 

 Fringilla punctulata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 302 (1760). 

 Grosbec de Java dit le Domino, Dauhent. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 139. fig. 1 



(misprinted tig. 2). 

 Loxia undulata, P. L. S. mill. Syst. Nat, Anhang, p. 151 (1776); 



Cass. Pioc. Phil. Acad. 1864, p. 252. 

 Cowry Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. 8yn. ii. pt. 1, p. 142 (1783). 

 Loxia puuctularia, Gni. Syst. Nat. i. p. 851 (1788). 

 Lonchura nisoria (nee Temm.), Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 94. 

 Munia lineoveuter, Hodc/s. Asiai. Res. xix. p. 154 (18361. 

 Spermestes nisoria {7iec Temm.), Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 26 (1840). 

 Spermestes lineoventer, Hodqs. Leon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 



pi. 307. fig. 5 (no. ,324) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844). 



