MUGG Y—MUNIA 601 
the Alcedinide (KINGFISHER), and Bucerotide (HorNpBILi). The 
Coliide are small birds, with a rather Finch-like bill, a more or less 
crested head, a very long tail, and are generally of a dun or slate- 
coloured plumage that sometimes brightens into blue or is pleasingly 
diversified with white or chestnut. They feed almost wholly on 
fruits, but occasionally take insects, in quest of which they pass in 
bands of fifteen or twenty from tree to tree, and hang in all 
a 
Mouse-Brrp. (Partly after Mitchell.) 
attitudes from the branches as they feed. It is even said that they 
sleep suspended by their powerful and versatile toes. Ten species 
are recognized by Dr. Sharpe (Cat. B. Br. Mus. xvii. pp. 338-346, 
and 500), all belonging to the Ethiopian Region (of which the 
Family is one of the most characteristic), and ranging from 
Abyssinia southwards. Three species inhabit the Cape Colony, 
MUGGY, possibly cognate with the latter part of Grasmiicke 
(Grass-Midge), the common German name of the WHITETHROAT, 
and allied birds ; but perhaps only a corruption of Mmccy, 
MULLET-HAWK, a name for the OSPREY. 
MUMRUEFFIVN, said to be a local name of the Long-tailed Trt- 
MOUSE. 
MUNIA, the general name in many parts of India for several 
kinds of small seed-eating birds, commonly placed in the Family 
