366 PLOCEID^. 



sides of fore neck light pinkish brown, like the rest of the under 

 surface of the bodj- ; the lower abdomen, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts blackish, with broad central streaks of pinkish brown or 

 whitish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries like the breast : " bill, 

 legs, and feet slaty ; iris brown " (Miss CocJchum). Total length 

 4-5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-2, tail 1*5, tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 4-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 2-15, tail 1'6, tarsus 0-55. 



Hab. Southern India. 



a. 2 iram. sk. Peria Forests, Wyuaad, May 1, Hume Coll. 



188] {W.Davison), 



b-k. cJ ad. etjuv. ; Coonoor, Nilghiris, Sept.-Nov. Tweeddale Coll. 



l-o. 9 ad. sk. {R. G. W. R.). 



p. (S ad. sk. Coonoor, Nov. 9 (W. D.). W. Davison, Esq. 



[P.]. 



q, r. c5' ad. sk. Slope of Nilghiris, June. Hume Coll. 



s. 2 ad. sk. Slope of Nilghiris, June. Forbes Coll. 



t-b'. (^ ; c'-i'. 5 Kotaghei-ry, Nilghiris, July Hume Coll. 



ad. ; ^'. 5ii"'-sk. (Miss Cockburn). 



t. Ad. sk. ■ Malabar. Tweeddale Coll. 



111-2)' . ^d. sk. Mynall, Travancore, July, Aug. F. Bourdillou [C.]. 



q', r'. Juv. sk. MynaU, May (F. Bourdillon), Hume CoU. 



14. Uroloncha kelaarti. 



Munia pectoralis (nee Jercl), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xx. p. 178 (1851). 

 Amadina pectoralis (nee Jerd.), Kelaart, Prodr. p. 126 (1852); 



Layard, Ann. ^ Mar/. Nat. Hist. (2) xiii. p. 258 (1854). 

 Muni'a kelaartii, Blyth, MSS. ; Jerd. B. hid. ii. p. 356 (1863) ; 



Bli/th, Ibis, 1867, p. 299 ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 464 ; Hume, 



Str. F. vii. p. 410 (1878) ; Legge, Birds of Ceylon, p. 650, pi. xxvii. 



fig. 2 (1879). 

 Amadina kelaartii, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 56, no. 6780 (1870) ; 



Hwne, Str. F. viii. p. 107 (1879). 



Adult male. Similar to U. pectoralis, but distinguished by the 

 mottled abdomen, the feathers being white barred with black, the 

 bars somewhat irregular and in the form of lateral notches ; the 

 sides of the neck and sides of breast pale pinkish fawn-colour : " bill 

 blackish leaden, bluish at the base of lower mandible ; legs and feet 

 plumbeous, in some with a greenish tinge ; iris sepia-brown " 

 (Legge). Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2*2, tail 1-55, 

 tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 4'1 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 2*15, tail 1-3, tarsus 0-55. 



Young. Uniform brown above, with only a few white marks on 

 the rump ; under surface light brown, streaked with white shaft- 

 lines on the fore neck and chest ; throat whitish, spotted with 

 dusky blackish ; abdomen whitish, with scanty spots and bars of 

 dusky blackish, these bars being more distinct on the lower flanks 

 and under tail-coverts. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



