)§4 MR. W J. F. WILLIAMSON ON 



18 (727j. Uroloncha acuticauda (llodgs.). Iludi/son's 

 Afunia. 



Miiiiiii iinitinnidd, Ogilvie-Grrtiit, Fasc. Mabiv. Hinls (1905), p. 00 : 



Kobinsoii, .luuru. F. ^l. S. Mns. V. (l',ll.j), p. l.jl. 

 Vri>l(iin-hu iir>tHr<i)i<lii. Gvlilenstnlpc i;)!"), p. 40. 



Siamese, un nrrw (Nok kra-thi). 



Dc^criiiiion, Length about 111 mm. (]..jiii.). Whole upper 

 plumage dark brown, with a band of white across the rump, and 

 with the edges of tlie upper tail-coverts pale — the shafts of all the 

 feathers of the upper plumage being white ; wings, the feathers round 

 the bill, and the chin, throat and upper breast blackish brown; remain- 

 der of the breast dark brown, with pale margins and white shafts to the 

 feathers ; abdomen and sides of the body whitish, mottled with brown ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts chocolate-brown, with white shafts. 



Iris reddish brown to dull red ( dark brown — Gates ). I'pper 

 mandible blackL-^h, lower mandible bluish plumbeous. Legs dark 

 plumbeous. Claws dusky horn-colour. 



llaliils, dr. This is a resident bird, and i.-; not uncommon. 

 It ajjpears to breed from January to August or September, as 1 

 have seen nests, or taken eggs, at intervals, during those months. 

 The nest is a large one. for the size of the bird, and is an un- 

 tidy, domed structure, made of dried grass-stems, with a hole at the 

 side, and is placed either in the fork of a tree, at no great height from 

 tiie ground, or in creepers, &c., against the side of a house. 'When 

 not breeding, this Munia assembles in small flocks. Its note is a 

 rather short chr-chr. 



Dit-tnlndion. Northern, Central and Peninsular Siam. Not 

 yet recorded from the Western or South-eastern parts of the country. 



•19 (7:3 J). Uroloncha punctulata (Linn.). The S/>oUcd 



J/tiii/a. 

 Mmiiii /iiiDrtiiliiin siiliiiii(liil<itii, Ciyldcustolpc 1916, p. 28. 



Siamese, iifi nj:iiu °Ji VIW (Nok kra-chab klii-niu). 



Description. Length 123 mm. (4.8 in.). Ipjier plumage dull 

 chocolate-brown, with the sliafts of the feathers whitish : lower rump 

 piler and with whitish edges to the feathers: tail brown; wings 



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