362 PLOCEID^. 



tail-coverts, as well as the thighs and lower flanks, black washed 

 with rufous ; sides of neck washed with rufous-brown, but not 

 streaked with whitish: " upper mandible black, the lower one leaden 

 blue ; legs and feet plumbeous green or greenish horny ; iris 

 reddish brown '* {A. 0. Hume). Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 

 0*4, wing 1-95, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-45. 

 Hob. Andaman Islands. 



a, b. Tmm. sk. S. Andamans, Feb. (-R. G. Tweeddale Coll. 



W. It.). (Types of species.) 



c-g. d ; ^-^- S. Andaman, March, June, Tweeddale Coll. 



9 ad. sk. Oct. (R. J. Wimbeiiey ^ 



R. G. W. R.). 

 n, 0. (S 2 ^^- sk. S. Andaman, July. Hume Coll. 



/;. Ad, sk. Aberdeen, S. Audamaus, Hume Coll. 



Nov. 11 {W, Davison), 

 q, r, s. (S ; t, u, Port Blair, June ( W. Dmi- Hume Coll. 



v,w. 5 ad. sk. son). 



a,--«. ,5 ad. et juv. ; Mount Harriet, June, Dec. Hume Coll. 

 a'-e'. $ ad. sk. {W. Davison). 



7. Urolonclia leucogastra. 



Amadiiia leucogastra, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xv. p. 286 (1846) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. ii. p. 370 (1849) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 66, 107, 161 ; 

 Gates, Handb. B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 367 (1883). 



? Munia melanictera, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. 8oc. p. 117 (1849). 



Munia leucogastra, Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. E. 1. Co. Mus. ii. p. 510 

 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 359 (1863) ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 267 

 (1874); Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 323; Davison, Str. F. 1877, 

 p. 460; Hume |- Davison, Str. F. iv. p. 402 (1878) ; Vorderm. Nat. 

 Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xlvi. p. 234 (1887). 



Munia chrysura, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 172 {ex MSS. Mies. Lugd.). 



Oxycerca leucogastra, Tivecdd. Ann. Sf Maq. Nat. Hist. (4) xx. p. 96 

 (1877) ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 622. 



Adult male. Above brown, streaked with white shaft-lines, the 

 wing-coverts like the back and similarly streaked, as also the 

 secondaries; quills blackish; rump and upper tail-coverts uniform 

 black ; tail-feathers blackish, broadly edged with golden- or straw- 

 jeUow ; crown of head more uniform brown, with scarcely any 

 whitish shaft-streaks ; the forehead, lores, sides of face, throat, and 

 chest black ; remainder of under surface of body white ; the sides 

 of the body, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts black, with a 

 slight wash of chocolate-brown ; the white feathers on the sides of 

 the body spotted or marked with black in the vicinity of the blackish 

 flanks ; under wing-coverts white ; quills blackish below, fulvous 

 along the inner web : " bill, upper mandible brownish black or 

 black, lower dull smalt or pale blue: legs and feet i^lumbeous or 

 dull smalt-blue ; iris dark brown " ( W. Davison). Total length 

 3-8 inches, culmeu 0-45, wing 1-95, tail 1-4, tarsus 05. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 4-6 

 inches, ciilmen 0-45, wing 1-95, tail 1-3, tarsus 0-5. 



Young. Similar to the adults but lighter brown, with less straw- 



