UROLONCHA. 691 



lighter shaft-lines; feathers on the remaining under parts white with 

 white shafts and white edges, each feather with a broad, median, brown 

 mark and a wide brown band around the feather, next to the white edge, 

 producing a peculiar and characteristic pattern. Iris light brown; bill 

 horn-blue, the upper mandible darker especially toward the tip; legs 

 and nails horn-blue. A male from Benguet Province, Luzon, measures : 

 Length, 108; wing, 48; tail, 39; culmen from base, 10.5; tarsus, 13. 

 A female, wing, 48 ; tail, 36 ; culmen from base, 11 ; tarsus, 13. 



Young. — L^pper parts broccoli-brown, darker on crown; under parts 

 cream-buff, nearly white on middle of abdomen and on crissmn. 



Cabanis's weaver is sometimes found in small flocks, but it is much 

 rarer than either Munia jagori or Uroloncha everetti. 



"A large flock of Cabanis's weavers was seen, in an open field in 

 Panay, but this species was not again found by us. A female measures : 

 Wing, 50; tail, 37.5; culmen, 11; tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 17." 

 {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Genus UBOLONCHA Cabanis, 1851. 



The genus Urolonclia as represented in the Philippines differs very 



little from Munia; in the two species of Uroloncha found here the 



plumage is all, or nearly all, chocolate-brown, the tail is wedge-shaped, 



and the central pair of rectrices, although pointed, are less acute than 



in Munia. 



Species. 



a^. Feathers of back and wing-coverts with white shaft-lines; middle of abdomen 

 white .-.- everetti (p. 691) 



a"'. Feathers of upper parts without white shaft-lines; abdomen cliocolate-brown 

 uniform with the rest of the plumage fuscans (p. 692) 



704. UROLONCHA EVERETTI (Tweeddale). 

 EVERETT'S WEAVEE. 



Orijcerca everetti Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 96; 

 Proe. Zool. Soc. (1877), 7(54, pi. 73, fig. 2. 



Uroloncha everetti Shabpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 363; White- 

 head, Ibis (1899), 242; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 

 105. 



Bi-lit', Calayan. 



Balabac (Everett); Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns <£ Worcester, McG-regor) ; 

 Bohol {McGregor) ; Calamianes (Bourns cC- Worcester); Calayan (McGregor) ; 

 Camiguin N. (McGregor) ; Catanduanes (Whitehead); Cebu (Everett, Bourns 

 d Worcester); Guimaras (Steere Exp.); Leyte (Whitehead); Luzon (Everett, 

 McGregor) ; Mindanao (Koch <C- Schadenberg, Bourns d Worcester, Celestino) ; 

 Mindoro (Porter); Negros (Whitehead, Celestino); Palawan (Everett, White- 

 head, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, White) ; Panay (Steere Exp.) ; 

 Polillo (McGregor); Romblon (Bourns d- Worcester); Samar (Whitehead); 

 Sibuyan (Bourns d W^orcester, McGregor) ; Tablas (Bo)(r)is d Worcester) ; Tawi 

 Tawi (Boui^is d Worcester, Everett). 



