MUNIA. 689 



701. MUNIA JAGORI Martens. 

 PHILIPPINE WEAVER. 



Munia (Dermophrys) jagori '•Cabanis," Martens, Jour, fiir Orn. (1866), 



U. 

 Munia jagori Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 337; Grant and 



Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 245 (eggs); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 241 



(habits) ; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 105. 

 Munia brunneiceps Grant, Ibis (1895), 261; (1896), 554 (^jagori in worn 



plumage). 

 f Fringilla minuta Meyen, Nov. Act. Acad. C. L. C. Nat. Cur. (1834), 16, 



suppl. prin. 86, pi. 12. 



Bi-ching, Benguet; mai-ya, Ticao; vid-ja, Bohol. 



Balabac (Everett) ; Bantayan {McGregor) ; Banton (Celestino) ; Batan {Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Basilan {Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol {Everett, Steere 

 Exp., McGregor); Bongao {Everett); Cagayan Sulu {Meams) ; Calamianes 

 {Bourns d ^Vorcester) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Cantanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu 

 (Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Fuga (McGregor) ; Gui- 

 maras itSteere Exp.); Leyte (Everett, Steere Exp., Bartsch) ; Lubang (Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Luzon (Everett, Hteere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Masbate 

 (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindanao {8teere, Murray, Everett, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Celestino) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., Bourns d Wor- 

 cester, McGregor) ; Negros (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Keay, 

 Whitehead, Celestino); Palawan (Whitehead, Bourns d Worcester, White); 

 Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Polillo (McGregor) ; Romblon (Bourns 

 d Worcester, McGregor) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Semirara 

 (Worcester); Sibay (McGregor d Worcester); Sibuyan (Bourns d Worcester, 

 McGregor) ; Siquijor (Bourns d Worcester) ; Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns d Wor- 

 cester, Bartsch) ; Tablas (Bourns d Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns d Worcester) ; 

 Ticao ( McG-regor ) . 



Adult. — Entire head, chin, throat, and cliest blackish brown; liind neck 

 and sides of neck usually lighter or chocolate-brown, sharply detined 

 against the chestnut of back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and edges of quills; 

 sides of breast, flanks, and a narrow band across breast chestnut, brighter 

 than the back; middle of lower breast, abdomen, thighs, and crissum, 

 black or blackish brown ; rump and tail-coverts deep maroon ; tips of 

 longest coverts and edges of two central rectrices golden brown or orange- 

 rufous. Iris dark brown; bill, legs, and nails light horn-blue. A pair 

 from Luzon measure: Male, length, 120; wing, 54; tail, 39; culmen from 

 base, 11; tarsus, 16; female, wing, 54; tail, 38; culmen from base, 10; 

 tarsus, 13. 



Young. — Head and neck hair-brown; back and wing-coverts wood- 

 brown, tail-coverts lighter; throat creamy buff; breast, abdomen, and 

 crissum yellowish buff; rectrices and wing- feathers dark brown edged with 

 buff. 



The Philippine chestnut weaver, or rice bird, is abundant throughout 

 the Islands. It is extremely social in its habits and in many cases a 



