350 PLOCEID.B. 



«'. Ad. sk. Aujango, Tiavancore, Dec. Hiiine Coll. 



o'. Ad. sk. Ceylou. T. Thwaites, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 p\ 2 ad. sk. Ootta, Ceylou, March 15. Colonel V. Legge 



[P.]. 

 q', r\ s\ Ad. ; t', Ceylou {Nevill). Tweeddale Coll. 



u^. Juv. sk. 

 v\ d; w\.vK 2- Ceylon, Nov. {W. Hart). Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. 



Subsp. a. Munia subundulata. 



Munia punctularia {nee Gin.'), Schomb. Ibis, 1864, p. 263 ; Bh/th 4" 



Wald. B. Burm. p. 93 (1875) ; Anders. Zool. Kcped. Yun-nan, 



p. 599 (1878). 

 Munia subuudulata, Godwin-Austen, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 48; Hume, 



Str. F. iii. p. 398 (1875) ; Oates, Str. F. v. p. 162. 

 Munia superstriata, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 481, note (1874) ; id. Sr 



Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 402 (1878). 

 Munia inglisi, Hume, Str. F. v. p. 39 (1877). 

 Auiadina subundulata, Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 107 (1879) ; id. Str. 



F. xi. p. 272 (1888). 

 Amadina superstriata, Hume, t. c. p. 107 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 232 



(1882). 

 Amadina inglisi, Hume, t. c. p. 107. 

 Amadina punctulata {nee L. ), Oates, Handb. B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 308 



(1883). 



Adult. The characters wbicb separate tbis race from M. punc- 

 tulata are extremely sligbt. They consist in the more olive-yellow 

 shade of the rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail, and the generally 

 more ashy black of the flank -barring, which, moreover, is not so 

 strongly pronounced as in 31. jncnciulata. On the rump the 

 feathers have not the second subterminal dusky bar which is seen 

 in the latter species. 



Feather from lower back of M. subundulata (enlarged). 



M. subundulata is in reality very similar to M. punctidata and 

 intermediate between ihat species and M. nisoria. It differs from 

 the former in having the black barring on the sides of the body 

 much less pronounced, the bars being narrower and more ashy 

 blackish in tint. The shade of yellow over the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts is pale straw-yellow with an olive tinge, and a shade of 

 hoary olive joervades the tail. Of the two forms, M. subundulata 

 approaches nearest to M. nisoria ; but the yellow shade which is 

 found on the rump and tail of many specimens shows an approach 

 to 31. jiunctulata. As a rule the chestnut on the throat is less 



