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The Manipur specimens in the Hume Collection are almost undis- 

 tinguishable from Chinese and Formosan examples of M. topda, and 

 several Burmese and Assamese specimens appear to be intermediate, 

 but the tlank-barriugs are generally very distinct and broad, and the 

 golden colour on the rump and tail is usually so well-pronounced that 

 they appear to belong as much to M. pimctulata as to M. suhundalata. 

 The specimens, however, from these localities form a very strong 

 connecting-link between the two species. 



Uab. Southern China, Formosa and Hainan. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad. sk. 



c. Ad. sk, 



d. e. Ad. at juv. 

 sk. 



/, g, A. Ad. ; i, k, 

 /, tn. Juv. sk. 



n, o. Ad. et juv. 

 sk. 



p. Var. sk. 



q. Ad. sk. 



r, s, i, u. Juv. sk. 



V, 10. Imm. sk. 



.r. Ad. sk. 



y. Ad. sk. 



z, «'. Ad. sk. 



h' . Ad. ; c', (V . 



Juv. sk. 



e . Ad. sk. 



/, g'. Ad. et 

 imm. sk. 



Foochow, China (-R. 



Sivinhoe). 

 Foochow {R. S.). 

 Foochow {M. S.). 

 Tingchow, Oct. {R. S.). 



Amoy, Jan., April, June, Oct., 



Nov. (i?. S.). 

 Amoy, June, Nov. (i?. S.). 



Shanghai. 



Macao, March 21 (E. S.). 

 N. Formosa, March (i?. 8.). 

 N. Formosa, March (E. iS.). 

 N. Formosa, March (E. S.). 

 Takow, Formosa, Dec. 



(R. S.) 

 S.W. Formosa (R. S.). 

 Hainan, Feb., March {R. S.). 



Hainan, March (R. S.). 

 Hainan, Feb. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Cull. 



SeebohmCoU. (Types 



of species.) 

 Hume Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Forbes Coll. 



Seebohm CoU. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Consul Swinhoe [C.]. 



Subsp. y. Munia nisoria. 



Le Grosbec tachet^ de Java, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 239, pi. xiii. fig. 2 



(1760). 

 Loxia undulata {nee Miill.), Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 387 (1790). 

 Fringilla punctularia (nee Gm.), Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 161 



(1820). 

 Fringilla nisoria, Temm. PL Col. iii. pi. 500. fig. 2 (1830). 

 Aniadina punctularia (nee Gm.), Hay, J. A. S. JB. xiv. p. 554, note 



(1845). 

 Oxycerca nisoria, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 10 (1849). 

 Munia punctularia (nee Gm.), Blyth, Cut. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 117 



(1849) ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 452 (1850) ; Horsf. 8f Moore, Cat. B. 



Mils. E. L Co. ii. p. 6C5 (1856). 

 Amadina undulata, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 56, no. 6778 (1870). 

 Amadina nisoria, Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 66 (1879). 

 Lonchura undulata, Vorderm. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xliv. 



p. 224 (1885). 



Adult. Similar to 31. pimctulata, but has a grey shade over the 

 rump and tail, with scared}' any olive-yellow ; the rump-feathers 

 are like those of M. topela, plain with a pale edging, but with 



