32. MUNiA. 347 



Amadina lineoventer, Hay, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 554, note (1845). 

 Muiiia punctiilaria, Gray, Cat. 3Iamm. etc. Nepal pres. ilodqs, 



p. 140 (1846). 

 Amndiua punctiilaria, Bhfth, J. A. S. B. xv. pp. 37, 285 (1846) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 270 (1849). 

 Mimia undulata, Blijth, Cat. B. Mits. As. Soc. p. 117 (1849) ; JTorsf. 



Sr Moore, Cat. B. Mns. E.I. Co. ii. p. 606 (1856) ; Jerd. B. hid. 



ii. p. 3o4 (1863) ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 464. 

 Uroloucha pimctulata, Cah. Mks. Ilein. i. p. 175 (1850). 

 Amadiua uudukta, /tV/rt«/-i, Prodr. Cat. p. 12o (1852); Layard, Ann. 



8f May. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 258 (1854). 

 Amadina pimctulata. Gray, mmd-l. B. ii. p. 5G, no. 6779 (1870) ; 



Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 107 ; Scully, t. c. p. 332 ; Vidal, Str. F. 



ix. p. 71 (1880) ; Reid, Str. F. x. p. 55 (1881) ; Davidson, t. c. 



p. 312 ( 1882) ; Davison, t. c. p. 402 (1883) ; McGregor, t. c. p. 439 



(1887) ; Taylor, t. c. p. 463 (1887). 

 Oxycerca punctulata, Hume, Nests S,- Eggs Ind. B. p. 444 (1873). 

 Munia punctulata, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 481 (1874) ; Fairhank, Str. F. 



1876, p. 260, 1877, p. 408 ; Davidson S,- Wend. Str. F. vii. p. 85 



(1878) ; Ball, t. c. p. 222 ; Cripps, t. c. p. 293. 

 Lonchura punctulata, Adams, Str. F. 1873, p. 387 ; Ball, Str. F. 



1874, p. 420 ; Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 156 ; Butler, t. c. p. 469. 



Adult male. General colour above warm chocolate-brown, with 

 narrow whitish shaft-lines ; the lower back waved with dusky-brown 

 cross bars ; rump and upper tail-coverts straw-yellow, with a golden 

 gloss ; tail-feathers dusky brown, glossed externally with straw- 

 yellow ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back, as also the 

 inner secondaries, all showing white shaft-lines : greater coverts a 

 little brighter rufous than the back ; quills dusky brown, externally 

 bright rufous ; head viuoug chestnut, with feebly indicated shafts 

 lines ; sides of face and throat deep vinous chestnut ; sides of neck 

 paler, with narrow whitish shaft-lines ; remainder of under surface 

 of body thickly mottled with white spots, all the feathers being 

 barred and edged with chestnut on the breast and with blackish on 

 the sides of the body ; thighs ashy brown, with dusky cross bars ; 

 centre of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white, the latter 

 with a buiSsh tinge ; under wing-coverts buff, with a few dusky 

 cross bars ; the edge of the wing mottled with white ; quills dusky 

 below, ashy fulvous along the inner web : " bill black ; legs and 

 feet lavender " {A. 0. Hume, MSS.) Total length 4-4 inches, cul- 

 men 0-45, wing 2*25, tail 1*65, tarsus 0'6. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 4*5 

 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-15, tail 1-75, tarsus 0"6. 



Young. Nearly uniform reddish brown ; upper tail-coverts more 

 yellowish brown ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series and 

 the outer aspect of the quills ruddy brown, the primaries inclining 

 to chestnut on the outer web ; tail-feathers brown, externally ruddy 

 brown, the centre ones washed with yellowish brown ; crown of 

 head and sides of face like the back ; under surface of body deep 

 ochrcous or sand}" brown, the centre of the breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts white : " bill black ; legs dull lavender ; iris 

 brown ; orbits bluish slate" {R. G. Wardlaiv Bamsay). 



Young birds remain in their uniform plumage from September to 



