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yellow supercilium and a spot of the same colour behind the ear-coverts ; 

 a small dark stripe at the base of the bill on each side, the throat 

 yellowish, with a few dark spots,- bill white; irides light brown; legs 

 fleshy brown. 



Length. — 5*5 to 6 inches, wing 2'75, tail 1'75. 



Hah. — Lower Bengal, extending into Assam and parts of Burmah. 

 Occurs also in Sind; not known from the Punjab andN. W. Provinces.^ 



Sub-Family, ESTRELDIN^. 



Bill large, conic, more or less bulged or slender; wiugs short, 

 rounded; the 1st primary minute as in Ploceus. 



Gen. Munla. 



Bill thick, as long as deep ; culmen arched, prolonged behind on the 

 forehead; tarsi stout, moderate. 



Munia malabarica. Lin. Jard.; and Selby, III. Orn. 2nd Ser. pi. 

 34; Reich. Sing. t. 150; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 357, No. 703; Murray, 

 HdbJc., Zool, 8fc., Bind, p. 177.— The Plain Brown Munia. 



Head, back and scapulars pale earthy brown, the feathers of the 

 head centred darker, giving it a rufescent brown appearance; rump pale 

 earthy brown; upper tail-ccverts white, barred with dusky; primaries, 

 secondaries and tertiaries dusky brown ; the secondaries and tertiaries 

 rufescent brown on their outer webs and tipped very slightly with 

 whitish ; wing- coverts like the back, the first three or four from the 

 edge of the wing dark brown ; edge of the wing whitish ; chin, throat, 

 breast, belly, and under tail-coverts greyish white, the flanks and sides 

 of the breast in some specimens with transverse bars of rufescent; 

 under tail-coverts white ; tail dark brown, edged with dark reddish 

 brown, the central feathers broadly so, and prolonged 0-75 beyond the 

 others; bill plumbeous ; legs pale brown; irides deep brown. • 



Length. — 5 inches, tail 2, wing 2'1, bill at front 0'4. 



Kab' — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Southern and Central India, 

 Malabar, Deccanj Concan, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore, Jeypore, and 

 N. Guzerat. 



Gen. Estrelda— S^'*^*'. 



Bill not so broad, nor as high as in munia, and more compressed. 

 Estrelda amandava, Linn.; P. E. 115-3; i^euA. Sing. t. 4, 25, 



33; Jerd. Birds Ind. ii. p. 359, No. 704; Mtirray, Hdhh., Zool., Sfc, 

 Sindi p. 177; Gray, Handlist B. i. p. 60. — The Red Wax-Bill. 



Summer Plumage.— FesbtherS: of the forehead and crown brown, 

 tipped with crimson ; a spot in front of the eye black ; a bright 

 crimson supercilium, and a row of white feathers under the eye ; sides of 

 the face, chin, throat, breast, flanks and upper tail-coverts crimson, 

 the feathers basally dark brown, and those of the breast and upper tail- 

 coverts and flanks with a terminal white spot ; back, rump, wing- 

 coverts, primaries, secondaries and tertiaries olive brown, the tips of 



