33. TTEOIONCHA. 365 



AcluU (tj'pe of species). Nearly uniform chocolate-brown, above 

 and below, with a slight appearance of paler brown stripes on the 

 head ; sides of face, sides of neck, fore neck, and breast with scanty 

 narrow whitish shaft-lines ; centre of breast and abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts blackish ; wing-coverts like the back, with tiny 

 white dots; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers 

 blackish brown ; the inner secondaries like the back, with pale 

 fulvous tips ; under wing-coverts and inner lining of quills ochreous 

 buff. Total length 3'9 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 1-95, tail 1'3, 

 tarsus 0'5. 



Hob. ISTew Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. New Guinea. Wallace Coll. (Type of species.) 



12. TJrolonclia leucosticta. 



Munia leucosticta, If Alb. &; Salviul. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xiv. 

 p. 88 (1879); Reichen. ^- Schalorv, J. f. O. 1879, p. 327; Salvad. 

 Ami. Genov. xvi. p. 191 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 4-37 

 (1881). 



Adult. General coloiir above brown ; head dusky, marked with 

 white shaft-lines ; back and wing-coverts brownish, with white 

 spots ; rump yellowish ; upper tail-coverts black ; underparts 

 rufous-brown, gradually whitish towards the throat ; breast scaled 

 with white ; under tail-coverts blackish ; quills dusky ; under wing- 

 co verts white, uniform with the throat ; tail black ; bill pearly grey ; 

 feet ashy ; iris black (D'AJbertis). Total length 3-9 inches, culmen 

 0"45, wing 1"95, tail 1-5, tarsus 0'95. (Salvad.) 



Said to be near U. tristissima, but differing in its clearer brown 

 colour, especially below, and by the little white spots on the back 

 and wing-coverts, and by the breast scaled with white markings. 



Hab. Fly River, S.E. New Guinea. 



13. Uroloncha pectoralis. 



Spermestes, sp. nov., Je7-d. Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 171 (1844). 



Muuia pectoralis, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 355 (1863) ; Hume, Str. F. 



1875, p. 263, 1876, p. 403. 

 Amadina pectoralis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 56, no. 6782 (1870) ; 



Hume, Nests S,- Eggs Ind. B. p. 448 (1873) ; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 107 ; 



Bxdler, Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 61 (1880) ; Davison, Str. F. x. 



p. 402 (1883) ; Terry, t. c. p. 478 (1887). 



Adult male. Above warm chocolate-brown, streaked with narrow 

 buffy-white shaft-lines to the feathers ; the head rather darker ; 

 rump blackish, with broader shaft-lines of huffy white and broad 

 terminal spots of the same colour ; upper tail-coverts straw-yellow ; 

 wings and tail-feathers black ; lores, feathers round the eye, sides 

 of face, cheeks, throat, and fore neck black ; feathers behind the 

 eye, hinder car-coverts, and sides of neck light chocolate-browu, 

 with the same white shaft-lines as the back ; sides of neck and 



