96 Jour., Bom. Xaf. Hist. Soc, Vol. XXI'II, .\o. 4. [.Juli/ .'31. I'.U'l. 



Family Ieenid.i;*, 



949, (2DI) Irena puella puella. TJie Fairy Blue-Bird. 



Coracias puella Lath., lad. Oni. i., j)- 1~1 (1~9(^). {India) 

 {Travancore). 

 India, N. and Central Burma. 



950. (251) Irena puella cyanea. The Malay Fairy Blue-Bird. 



Irena cyanea Beijbie, Malayan Penin., p. 51G, date {Malay 

 Pen). 



Extreme S. of Tennasserim and Siam. 



Family Plocein^. 

 Sub-family Ploceinw. 



951. (720) Ploceus philippinus philippinus. The Baya. 



Loxia philippina Linn., Sijst. Nat. {XII), p. 305 (1766), 

 (Ceylon). 

 Ceylon and the greater part of India. 



952. (721) Ploceus philippinus megarhynchus. Finn's Baya. 



P. megarhynchus Hume, Sir. Fealh. Hi., p. 406 (1875), 

 {Kaladoongi, Nainital). 



Himalayas about Nainital. ? Extent of range. 



953. (721) Ploceus philippinus passerinus. The Eastern Baya 



\\ passeriniis Beidienow, Zool. Jahrb. i., 1886, p. 156, {Nepal) 

 Eastern Sub-Himalayas, Bengal, Assam, N. Burma and 

 Siam. 



954. (721) rioceus philippinus infortunatus. The Malay 



Baya. 

 Ploceus passerinus infortmiatus Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix., 

 p. 577 (1902), {Sungei Leheh). 



South Siam, Tennasserim and Malay Peninsula. 



955- (722) Ploceus benghalensis. The Black-throated Weaver- 

 Bird. 

 Loxia benghalensis IJvn., Syst. Nat. p. 305 (1766), {Bengal). 

 N. India, Assam, Manipur and Chin Hills. 



956. (723) Ploceus manyar manyar. The Striated Weaver-Bird. 

 Fringilla manyar Hors., Trans. Lin. Soc. xiii., p. 160 



(1820), {Java). 



Java, Bali, Malay Pen. to S. Tennasserim. 



* Oberholscr has recently (Oct. 1917) created this family for the two genera Irena 

 and Glauconympha (Jour. Wash. Acad. Sc. VII., No. 17) which he seems to think 

 should bo placed near the Bulbuls. Whilst agreeing that Irena cannot be placed in 

 any known family, I think it may eventually find a place nearer the Cochoa group of 

 Thrushes. I cannot separate Irena and Glauconympha. 



