1875.] , THE PHILIPPINE AECHIPELAGO. 



371 



PLOCEID.E. Tr. Z. S. is. 



p. 207. 



Plocein^. 



Padda, Reiclienbach. 



131. Padda oetzivora. 



The cock Padda, or Rice-lird, Edwards, Nat. Hist. i. pi. 41, " China." 

 Loxia onjzivora, Linn. Amocn. Acad. iv. p. 243, no. 16 (1759), ex Edwards; v. Martens, 

 J. f. O. 1866, p. 14, no. 59 ; Walden, Tr. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 72. [Antea, p. 173.] 



Observed by Dr. v. Martens in the Museum of the Military Library at Manilla, and, in all 

 likelihood, an indigenous species. 



MuNiA, Hodgson. 



132. * MUNIA JAGOEI. 



Munia {Dermophrys) jagori. Cab., v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 14, no. 60 "Luzon " 



Bermophrijs jagori, Cab. op. cit. 1872, p. 316, no. 6. 



Munia minuta (Meyen), G. R. Gray, Hand-list, no. 6761. 



Hab. Zebu, April {Meyer). 



Two examples ( s ? ,fide Meyer) of an almost black-headed Munia were obtained in Zebu 

 by Dr. B. Meyer. Both have the upper tail-coverts glistening dark chestnut, and the middle 

 pair of rectrices rich glistening ferruginous. In the male the black extends from the breast to 

 the under tail-coverts, forming a broad, mesial, black, continuous band. In the female this black 

 mesial band is interrupted by a chestnut band crossing the breast. In examples of M. ruhro- 

 nigra from the Deyra Doon, Bengal, Tippera, Mymensing, and Tonghoo, as well as oiM.fornwsana 

 from Formosa, and M. hmnneiceps from Celebes and Banjerraassing, the black mesial band is 

 not continuous, nor is it so broadly developed on the abdomen. In M. rubro-nic/ra the whole 

 head is intensely black. In M. formosana the occiput and nape are faded brown • and 

 Mr. Swinhoe has established that this is normal in the adult bird (Ibis, 1865, p. 356). The 

 Philippine, Celebean, and South-Bomean forms do not appear to have the head so intensely 

 black as in M. ruhro-nigra, although darker than in M. formosana. 



In the Philippine examples the head and nape are not of a true black, but rather of a dark 

 bro^Ti. This has also been pointed out by Dr. Cabanis (/. c). In M. hrunneiceps of Celebes 

 the head is still less black, and the black abdominal band is interrupted. 



As the synonymy of M. atricapilla and M. ruhro-nigra, thoroughly disentangled by 

 Mr. Blyth (Cat. Calc. Mus.) and by Mr. Moore (Cat. E. I. C. Mus.), has again been thrown into 

 confusion by Mr. Gray (Hand-list), it may be useful to recapitulate it. 



Munia atricapilla. rr<_ r, o ■ 



It. /. s. IX. 



The Chinese Sparrow, Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, i. p. 43, pi. 43, s . P' ^'^^• 



Coccothraiistes sinensis, Brisson, Orn. iii. p. 235, no. 7, ex Edwards. 



