UEOLONCHA. 187 



Coloration. Upper plumage, scapulars, and wing-coverts chocolate- 

 brown, the shaft of each feather white ; upper tail-coverts black ; 

 tail blackish, with broad shiny fulvous margins ; wings blackish ; 

 lores, cheeks, chin, throat, breast, sides of the body, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts black ; abdomen and under wing-coverts white, 

 the white of the abdomen forming an angle in the breast. 



Legs and feet dusky plumbeous or dull smalt-blue ; lower man- 

 dible dull smalt- or pale blue ; upper mandible brownish black or 

 black ; iris dark brown (Hume df Dav.). 



Length about 4-5 ; tail 1 -8 ; wing 1*9 ; tarsus '55 ; bill from 

 gape '45. 



Distribution. The extreme south of Tenasserim, ranging down 

 the Malay peninsula and to Borneo. 



Habits, &;c. Davison took a nest of this species in Tenasserim in 

 April. The eggs appear to measure about '65 by •44. 



732. Uroloncha pectoralis. The Rufous-bellied Munich 



Mimia pectoralis, Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 355 (1863) ; Hume, N. § E. 



p. 448 ; id. S. F. iii, p. 263, iv, p. 403. 

 Arnadina pectoralis (Jerd.), Hume, Cat. no. 700. 

 Uroloncha pectoralis {Jerd.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 365 ; Oates 



in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 136. 



Coloration. Upper plumage chocolate-brown with pale shafts, 

 the head a darker brown ; the rump blackish, with broad triangular 

 streaks of pale buff ; upper tail-coverts glistening fulvous ; tail 

 black ; wings dull black ; lores, cheeks, chin, throat, and fore neck 

 black ; ear-coverts buff with pale shafts ; sides of the fore neck, 

 sides of breast, breast, sides of the body, and the whole abdomen 

 pinkish brown ; vent and under tail-coverts blackish, with pinkish- 

 brown streaks. 



The young are plain chocolatedjrown above with fulvous upper 

 tail-coverts, and have the lower plumage buff with pale shaft-streaks. 



Bill, legs, and feet slaty ; iris brown (Miss Cockbum). 



Length nearly 5 ; tail 1*8 ; wing 2'2 ; tarsus '5 ; bill from 

 gape '45. 



Distribution. The hills on the western coast of India from the 

 Wynaad to Travancore. 



Habits, Sfc. Appears to breed chiefly in June and July. The 

 eggs measure about "62 by '44. 



733. Uroloncha kelaarti. The Ceylon Munia. 



Munia kelaarti, Bhjth, Jerd. B. 1. ii, p. 356 (1863) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 299 ; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 410 ; Leyye, Birds Cei/1, p. 650, pi. xxvii, 

 tig. 2. 



Arnadina kelaarti (Blyth), Hume, Cat. no. 700 bis. 



Uroloncha kelaarti (Blyth), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 366. 

 We-kurulla, Ceyl. ; Tinna kuruvi, Tam. 



Coloration. Upper plumage chocolate-brown with pale shafts, 



