144 Lord Walden on a further Collection of 



" S. Andaman : March 28, $ , iris dark brown ; bill dark 

 horu-coloiir, lighter below ; legs flesh-yellow." 

 Undistinguishable from Lake Baikal examples. 



87. MuNiA FUMiGATA, Walden, Ann. N. H. (4), xii. p. 488, 

 "S. Andaman" (Dec. 1873). 



Munia leuconota (Temm.), Ball, Str. Feath. i. p. 79. no. 90, 

 *' Andaman" (1873), nee Temm. 



"S. Andaman: Feb. ll." 



The following Asiatic species constitute, together with this 

 Andaman bird, a well-defined subgroup of the genus Munia : — 



Uropygium white. 



(1.) LoxiA STRIATA, Linu.^ S. N. i. p. 306. no. 37 (1766), 

 ex Briss. Oru. iii. p. 243, " Isle de Bourbon." 



Loxia albiventris, Herm. Observ. Zool. p. 205, ''Tranque- 

 baria" (1804). 



Fringilla leuconota, Temm., PI. Col. 500. fig. 2, " Bengal " 

 (1830). 



Dorsal plumage pale-shafted ; abdominal region and flanks 

 pure white. 



Ceylon, Peninsular and Central India, Lower Bengal. 



(2.) Munia acuticauda, Hodgson, As. Res. xix. p. 153, 

 "Nipaul" (1836). 



Munia molucca (Linn.)? Blyth, Cat. Calc. Mus. p. 117. 

 no. 626, nee Linn. 



Abdominal plumage white faintly marked with pale brown ; 

 middle rectrices elongated. 



Nipal, Sikim, Himalayas, Assam, Mergui, Burma, Malacca, 

 Hainan to Shanghai, and westwards to Szechuan, Formosa. 



In Malaccan birds the pale brown hastate markings on the 

 abdomen are better defined and much more pronounced. 



* Reljing on the short preliminary diagnosis given by Brisson {I. c), 

 I referred (Ibis, 1869, p. 211, note) the Javan species, M. leucogastroides, 

 Moore, to L. striata, Linn. A renewed study of the Brissonian text has 

 enforced me to alter this opinion. Unless the Island of Bourbon possesses 

 a species of Munia, or that of Java a second species, more perfectly agree- 

 ing with Brisson's description, it will be most convenient to retain the 

 Linnsean title for the Indian-peninsular form, if we do not reject it al- 

 together. 



