360 PLOCEID^. 



Fringilla leuconota, Temm. PL Col iii. pi. 600. fig. 1 (1830). 

 Lonchura leuconota, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 95. 

 Spermestes leuconota, Jerd. Much: Journ. xi. p. 27 (1840). 

 Amadina striata, Blytli, J. A. S. Bemj. xiii. p. 949 (1844), xv. p. 36 



(1846) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 370 (1849) ; Kelaart, Prodi: p. 126 



(1852) ; Layard, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xiii. p. 258 (1854) ; 



Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. E. I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 511 (1856) ; Gray. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 50, no. 6786 (1870) ; mime, Sir. F. 1879, p. 107 



Butler, Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 61 (1880) ; Vidal, Str. F. ix 



p. 72 (1880) ; Oates, Handh. B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 365 (1883) 



Terry, Str. F. x. p. 478 (1887). 

 MuDia striata, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 117 (1847) ; Bp. 



Consp. Av. i. p. 453 (1850) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 356 (1863) ; 



Holdsiv. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 464 ; Hume, Nests ^- Eqgs Ind. B. p. 448 



(1873) ; Wald. Ibis, 1874, p. 144 ; Fairb. Str. F. iv. p. 260 (1876) ; 



Ball, Str. F. vii. p. 222 (1878) ; Leyge, Birds of Ceylon, p. 660 



(1879). 

 Uroloncha striata, Cab. Mus. Hein.Th. i. p. 173 (1850). _ 

 Trichogramoptila striata, !-Z?e«c/im6. iS'mf/y. p. 37, Taf. xiii. figs. 116- 



117 (1861) ; Ball, Str. F. ii. p. 420 (1874). 

 Munia leuconota, Blyth ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 93 (1875). 

 Spermestes striata, JRiiss, Stubenv. p. 151 (1879). 



Adult. Sooty brown, distinctly streaked with white shaft-lines, 

 the dorsal feathers pale at the ends with a faint dusky subterminal 

 bar ; wing- coverts a little darker than the back, with similar 

 whitish shaft-lines; quills blackish brown, the inner ones with 

 white shaft-lines ; rump white ; upper tail-coverts blackish with 

 brown edges and with white shaft-lines : tail-feathers black ; head 

 blacker than the back, the nape and hind neck similarly streaked 

 with white shaft-lines, as also the sides of the neck and ear- 

 coverts ; forehead, lores, sides of face, throat, and chest black, 

 with very faintly indicated pale shaft-lines on the latter ; breast 

 and abdomen white, the lower flanks, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts dark brown washed with rufous, and having whitish 

 shaft-lines, more distinct on the flanks ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts buify white, the edge of the wing mottled with black ; 

 quills below blackish, buffy white along the inner web: "bill, 

 upper mandible blackish leaden, the lower one bluish with dark 

 tip ; legs and feet bluish or dusky leaden : iris brown or reddish 

 brown " ( W. V. Legge). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 2, 

 tail 1'7, tarsus 0'6. 



Hab. Central and Southern India and Ceylon. 



a. Ad. ; b. Imm. Maunbhoom, March, April Tweeddale Coll. 



sk. (R. C. Beavan). 



c, d. Ad. sk. Sumbulpur, Central Provinces, Hume CoU. 



Dec. 



e-i. Ad. ; k, I. Raipur, Jan. Hume Coll. 



Imm. sk. 



m-p. cj ; q, r, s. Seoni District, May (i?. Hume CoU. 



$ ad. sk. Thompson), 



t, II. Ad. sk. Deccan {Col. Sykes). India Museum. 



V. <S ad. sk. Khandala, July. Gould CoU. 



