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33. UROLONCHA. 367 



a, b. Ad. et juv. sk. Ceylon. Dr. Kelaart [P.]. 



c, d. Ad. et JUV. sk. Ceylon. T. Thwaites, Esq. [C.]. 



e-h. cJad. etjuv. ; Nuwara Eliya, Aug., Tweeddale Coll. 

 i. 2 ad. sk. Oct. (R W. H. Holds- 



luorth). 

 k, I. (S ^ ad. sk. Ceylon, Feb., Aug. ( W. Seebohm Coll. 



V. Lefff/e). 



15. Uroloncha molucca. 



Le Gros-bec des Moluques, 5ms. Orn. iii. p. 241, pi. 13. fig. 3 (1760) ; 



Daubent. PL Enl. iv. pi. 139. fig. 2 {nee fig. 1)*. 

 Loxia molucca, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 302 (1766). 

 Molucca Grosbeak, Lath. Gen, Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 141 (1788). 

 Loxia punctulata, cJ {nee L.), Bodd. Tahl. PL EnL p. 9 (1783). 

 Loxia variegata, VieilL Ois. Chant, p. 82, pi. 51 (1805). 

 Coccotliraustes variegata, VieilL N. Diet, d'Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 544 



(1817). 

 Amadiua molucca, way, Gen. B. ii. p. 370 (1849). 

 Amadina variegata, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 370 (1840) ; id. Hand-L B. 



ii. p. 66, no. 6784 (1870). 

 Muuia molucca, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus, As. Soc. App. p. 323 {nee p. 117, 



= M. acuticauda). 

 Munia molucca, Bj). Consp. i. p. 453 (1850) ; Heichenb. Singv. p. 38, 



Taf.xiv. figs. 118-120(1863); WalL Ibis, 186.3, p. 33; Salvad. 



Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. viii. p. 380 (1876), xiv. p. 656 (1879), xvi. 



p. 191 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 434 (1881). 

 Uroloncha molucca, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 173, note (1850). 

 Amadina molucca, Gray, P. Z. S. 1800, p. 355 ; Finsch, Neu-Gtiinea, 



p. 176 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-L B. ii. p. 54, no. 6753 (1870). 

 Amadina moluccensis, Rosenb. Reist. naar Geelvinkb. p. 7 (1875). 



Adult male. Above light brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 ■white, crossed with wavy lines of blackish brown, rather broad ; 

 the long upper tail-coverts black ; scapulars and wing-coverts like 

 the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, 

 the inner secondaries washed with light brown ; tail-feathers blackish; 

 crown of head black, becoming browner on the occiput and nape ; 

 sides efface, throat, and fore iieck black ; remainder of under surface 

 white, crossed with wavy lijies of black ; under wing-coverts bufFy 

 white ; quills dusky brown below, fulvescent along the inner web. 

 Total length 3-9 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 1-9, tail 1*35, tarsus 0'45. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 3-8 

 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 1-9, tail 1-35, tarsus 0-5. 



Young. Browner than the adults, the head a little darker brown, 

 but not blackish ; sides of face and throat dingy brown, slightly 

 vermiculated with white ; rump whitish, slightly vcrmiculated with 

 black ; under surface dull fulvous brown, with a few dusky cross 

 lines. 



Hah. Molucca Islands. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Batchian. Wallace Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Batchian {A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



d, e. (S 2 ad. sk. Teruate. Wallace Coll. 



* As Count Sahadori has shown, Dauben ton's figures are numbered wrongly. 



