33. UROLONCHA. 357 



(no. 325) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mas. E. I. Co. ii. p. 510 



(1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 356 (1863) ; Godwin-Austm, J. A. S. 



B. xxxix. p. 271 (1870) ; Hume, Nests S,- Eggs Ind. B. p. 450 



(1873) ; Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 481 (1874) ; Brooks, Str. F. iii. 



p. 254 (1875) ; Bhjth ^- Wald. B. Burm. p. 93 (1875) ; Hume ^ 



Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 403 (1878) ; Eelliam, Ibis, 1881, p. 523. 

 Spermestes (Lonchura) acuticauda, Hodgs. in Gray^s Zool. Miscell. 



p. 84 (1844). 

 Amadina acuticauda, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 949 (1844) ; Strickl. 



P. Z. S. 1846, p. 103 ; Graij, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 56, no. 6781 (1870) ; 



Hume, Str. F. viii. pp. 66, 107 (1879) ; Scully, t. c. p. 333;'.S'Mwe, 



Str. F. ix. p. 257 (1880) ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 2-32 (1882) ; id. 



Handb. B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 364 (1883) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 273 



(1888). 

 Munia leuconota, Gray, Cat. Mainm. ^-c. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 106 



(1846). 

 Munia niolucca, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 117 (1849). 

 Munia muscadina (Mus. Lugd.), Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 172, 

 Lonchura acuticauda, Hume, SYr. F. iii. p. 156 (1875). 

 Spermestes acuticauda, Russ, Stubenv. p. 153 (1879). 

 Urolonclia acuticauda, A. Miiller, J.f. O. 1882, p. 387. 



Adult. General colour above chocolate-brown with distinct shaft- 

 lines of white, these streaks less pronounced on the head, which is 

 blackish brown ; across the lower back a broad band of white ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts reddish brown, with white shaft-lines, 

 the upper tail-coverts blackish brown with a slight wash of straw- 

 yellow ; wing-coverts blackish, with narrow white shaft-lines ; quiUs 

 blackish brown ; tail-feathers black ; lores, sides of face, throat, and 

 chest blackish, with a shade of warm chocolate-brown or reddish 

 brown on the sides of the fore neck and chest, the feathers being 

 edged with this colour ; ear-coverts and sides of neck tawnv rufous, 

 spotted with white ; remainder of under surface of body from the 

 chest downwards white, with a few traces of dusky brown mottlings 

 and edgings to the feathers of the sides of the body ; tlanks, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts tawny rufous, centred with white shaft- 

 streaks ; axillaries light tawny buff; under wing-coverts whitish 

 mottled with brown bases ; quills dusky below, tawny buff along 

 the inner webs : " upper mandible blackish, the lower one plum- 

 beous ; feet plumbeous; iris dark brown"' {E. W. Oates). Total 

 length 4-5 inches, culmeu 0*4, wing 2-05, tail 1"65, tarsus 0"5o. 



Young. Difiers from the adults in being browner, the head like 

 the back, all the upper parts streaked with white shaft-lines ; sides 

 of face, throat, and chest brown, the latter being washed with 

 rufous and mottled with dusky markings ; breast white, mottled 

 vsdth dusky brown centres and edgings to the feathers. 



Malayan specimens vary somewhat. They are similar to Hima- 

 layan examples, but are more scaly in appearance on the throat, the 

 feathers being much more distinctly edged with whitish, the sides 

 of the face being also spotted with whitish. cS . Total length 4-2 

 inches, culmen 0"45, wing 1-95, tail 1-45, tarsus 0"o5. 



$ . Total length 4-1 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 1-9, tail 1-6, 

 tarsus 0-5. 



