on Dr. Jerdon's ' Birds of India.' 41 



701. MuNiA STRIATA is common in the Andamans. 



702. MuNiA ACUTiCAUDA inhabits China and Formosa^ if 

 not also Japan (Ibis, 1863, p. 379, and 1865, p. 348). 



705. EsTRELDA FORMOSA has been taken in the neighbour- 

 hood of Lucknow (where I have procured it), but much less 

 plentifully than E. amandava. At Oinerkantak, near the source 

 of the Nerbudda, it occurs very abundantly. There are three 

 allied red species, E. amandava of India, E. punicea of Java, 

 and E. flavidiventris of Timor. Which is it that is brought to 

 China from the Straits in large numbers as a cage-bird (Ibis, 

 1865, p. 293) ? 



706. Passer indicus. 



The Nubian Sparrow appears to be identical (Ibis, 1865, 

 p. 44) with the Indian. " When first at Akyab, during the rainy 

 season, I remarked P. montanus to be the common Sparrow 

 about the streets, considerably outnumbering P. indicus ; whereas 

 in the cold season the latter is the prevalent Sparrow about 

 Akyab. Southwards, however, I only on two occasions no- 

 ticed the common Indian Sparrow (once at Moulmein, and 

 once in a Burmese village higher up the Salouin); whereas P. 

 montanus was in extreme abundance everywhere, extending 

 southward to Singapore, and likewise inhabiting Java ; with 

 precisely the same habits as the other. I observed it, nume- 

 rously, as far south as Tavai and Mergui " (but it is unknown in 

 Bengal and the Peninsula of India). " At Thyet Myo, on the 

 Irawadi, Dr. Jerdon observed not only P. indicus and P. mon- 

 tanus common, but also the very pretty little P. flaveolus. When 

 at Pahpoon, in Upper Martaban, in the month of November, 

 three or four pairs of P. montanus appeared for one day only, 

 entering the few human abodes in the most familiar manner, 

 and apparently seeking convenient nooks for nesting-places; 

 but I saw no others in that wild forest region" (J. A. S. B. 

 xxxii. p. 77). Mr. Gould quotes a part of the foregoing pas- 

 sage (in his ' Birds of Great Britain,^ pt. iv.), but, confounding 

 Burma with India, leads his readers to suppose that P. mon- 

 tanus inhabits the latter country westward of the Bay of Bengal; 

 whereas it does not occur in India southward of the Sikhim 



