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and quills dark brown, externally lighter brown ; centre tail- 

 feathers ashy straw-colour, the remainder dark brown, externally 

 dull straw-colour ; crown of head darker and more chocolate-brown 

 than the back ; the sides of the hinder crown with whitish shaft- 

 lines ; lores dusky ; feathers round eye and sides of face brown, 

 inclining to hoary whitish on the ear-coverts and hinder cheeks ; 

 fore part of cheeks rufous-brown ; throat rufous-brown ; lower 

 throat, sides of neck, fore neck, and under surface of body mottled, 

 the feathers being ashy whitish with brown edgings,, and a brown 

 spear-shaped mark in the centre of the feather ; sides of body and 

 flanks more strongly marked, as also the under tail-coverts ; under 

 wing-coverts buffy white ; quills below dusky, ashy rufous along 

 the inner edge : " bill dull blue ; feet blue-grey ; iris Indian red " 

 (A. H. Everett). Total length 4 inches, culmcn 0-4, wing 2-05, 

 tail 1"35, tarsus 0-45. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 3" 9 inches, 

 culmen 0'4, wing 2, tail 1'4, tarsus 0'5. 



This species differs from M. nisoria in having the chestnut throat 

 much more restricted, and in having pale brown markings below as 

 in M. .subimchdata and M. toj^ela. 



Hah. Confined to the island of Luzon. 



a. Ad. sk. Philippine Islands. Zoological Society. 



h,c.S'i ad. sk. Luzon, Feb. 7 {A. B. Meyer). Tweeddale Coll. 



d. Imm. sk. Manila (Maitland-Iferiof). Tweeddale CoU. 



e. $ ad. sk. Monte Alban, Feb. {A. H. Tweeddale Coll. 



Everett). 



f. S ad. ; g, h. San Mateo, Feb. {A. H. Tweeddale Coll. 

 Juv. sk. Everett). 



22. Munia pectoralis. 



Donacola pectoralis, Goidd, B. Atistr. iii. pi. 95 (1848) ; Iteichenb. 



Vog. Neuholl. p. 118 (1850) ; Bjj. Consp. Av. i. p. 453 (1850) ; 



Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 427 (18G5) j Rammy, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 187 (1878). 

 Amadina pectoralis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 370 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



ii.p. 55, no. 6768(1870). 

 Donacicola pectoralis, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 1091 



(1887) ; id. op. cit. ii. p. 168 (1888) ; id. Tab. List Austr. B. p. 10 



(1888). 



Adult male. Above lavender-grey, the upper tail-coverts dusky 

 blackish; wing-coverts light brown, washed with ashy, and with 

 minute terminal white dots ; quills dusky, externally light brown ; 

 tail-feathers blackish brown ; head lavender-grey like the back ; a 

 narrow line from the base of the forehead above the eye, and running 

 down the sides of the nock, pale vinaceous bull" ; lores, sides of face, 

 and ear-coverts, as weU as the throat, jnirplish black ; fore neck 

 black, with a patch of broad white-tipped black feathers ; sides of 

 body pale vinaceous brown, ornamented with white bars, edged with 

 a black line on each side of the bar ; under tail-coverts dusky, the 



