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PLOCEIDjE. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Rump white. 



a'. Abdomen white mottled with brown .... U. acuticauda, p. 184. 

 b' . Abdomen plain, unmottled white. 



a". Feathers of upper plumage with white 

 shafts. 

 a'". Fore neck and breast deep black . . U. striata, p. 185. 

 V". Fore neck and breast brown with 



rufous margins U. semistriata, p. 180. 



b". Feathers of upper plumage without 



white shafts U. fumigata, p. 186. 



b. No white on rump. 



c'. Shafts of feathers of upper plumage pale ; 

 upper tail-coverts black or tipped with 

 glistening fulvous. 

 c". Abdomen white, sides of bod)' black. . U) leucoyastra, p. 186. 

 d". Abdomen and sides of the body plain 



pinkish brown U. pectoralis, p. 187. 



e". Abdomen and sides of the body cross- 

 barred with brown. 



c" . Chin and throat black U. kelaarti, p. 187. 



d'" . Chin and throat chestnut U. punetulata, p. 189. 



d'. Shafts of feathers of upper plumage of 

 same colour as feathers ; upper tail- 

 coverts white U. malabarica, p. 188. 



Fig. 48. — Tail of U. acuticauda. 



727. Uroloncha acuticauda. Hodgson's Munia. 



Munia acuticauda, Hodi/s. As. Res. xix, p. 153 (1836) ; Horsf. §■ 31. 



Cat. ii, p. 510 ; Jercl. B. I. ii, p. 356 ; Hume, N. § E. p. 450. 

 Munia molucca {Linn.), Blyth, Cat. p. 117. 

 Amadina acuticauda (JSodgs.), Hume, Cat. no. 702; Oates, B. B. \, 



p. 364; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 273. 

 Uroloncha acuticauda (Hodys.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 356; 



Oates in Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 131. 



The Himalayan Munia, Jerd. ; Samprek-pho, Lepch. ; Namprek, Bhut. 



Coloration. The whole upper plumage chocolate-brown, with a 

 band of white across the rump, the upper tail-coverts washed with 

 rufous, all the shafts of the feathers of the upper plumage white ; 

 tail black ; wing-coverts brown with white shafts ; wings blackish 



