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Iris brown ; bill almost white^ with a bluish tinge; feet 

 dull cobalt. 



194. MuNiA FORMOSANA Swiuli. (Grant, Ibis, 1895, 

 p. 112.) 



This Formosan species is apparently confined to the valley 

 of the Kio Grande, in North Luzon. 



Iris lake-red ; bill and feet whitish blue. 



195. MuNiA CABANisi Sharpc. (Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 456.) 

 A very local species, only met with by us in the dried-up 



bed of the Rio del Abra, where it was feeding on the grass- 

 seeds. 



196. Uroloncha EVERETTi (Tweedd,). (Grant, Ibis, 1895, 

 p. 261 ; 1896, p. 555; 1897, p. 240.) 



Though widely distributed in the Philippine Islands, this 

 little Finch is never abundant, and is not met with in large 

 flocks like Muniajagori. 



Iris lake-brown ; upper mandible black, lower whitish 

 blue; feet dull cobalt-blue. 



197. Chlorura BRUNNEivENTRis Grant, Ibis, 1894, p. 518 ; 

 1895, p. 456 ; 1896, p. 470. 



These small Bamboo-Sparrows are always difficult to 

 obtain; being wary and of swift flight, they disappear in a 

 second when alarmed. Amongst the bamboo-flowers (on 

 which they feed) their movements are very slow and quiet, 

 and it is only after one has found a number of bamboo- 

 clumps in full flower, by carefully hiding and watching the 

 flow^ers, that any success is obtained. My first specimens 

 were collected in Benguet at an elevation of only 2000 feet, 

 and we next met with the species again at 7600 feet on 

 Monte Data, when a single specimen was secured. In 

 Mindoro I shot a Chlorura in a pine-tree close to my camp, 

 and noticed another some days previously feeding at the end 

 of a pine-branch ; this was at an elevation of 4500 feet. The 

 note, which seems only to be uttered when the bird is on 

 the wing, is " tsit, tsit/'' and is a somewhat hissing sound. 



Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet flesh-colour. 



