262 ESTRELDINA. 
free; wings short; first primary minute, the three next nearly equal ; 
tail moderate or short, rounded or wedged ; tarsus stout, moderate; 
toes long, slender ; claws long. 
Amadina malacca, Lin. 
697.—Munia malacca, Lin.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, 
p. 352 ; Butler, Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 415. 
THE BLACK-HEADED MUNIA. 
Length, 4°5 ; wing, 2°6; tail, 1°5. 
Bill bluish, yellowish at tip; irides dark-brown; legs plum- 
beous. 
Whole head, neck, and breast, rich black; back, wings, and 
tail, pure rich cinnamon-red ; upper tail-coverts brighter tinged, 
and with a glistening lustre; beneath, from the breast, white, 
with the middle of the abdomen and vent black. 
Young birds of the year have the upper parts plain rufescent- 
brown, and the lower parts pale-buff, the chin and throat being 
albescent, and the lores dusky. 
The Black-headed Munia is a common seasonal visitant about 
Belgaum, breeding abundantly during the rains, in the sugar- 
cane fields. The eggs are not distinguishable from those of A. 
malabarica. 
Amadina rubronigra, Hodgson. 
698.—Munia rubronigra, Hodgs.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. 
II, p. 353 ; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 415. 
THE CHESNUT- BELLIED MUNIA. 
Length, 45; wings, 2°12; tail, 15; tarsus, 0°5; bill at front, 
5. 
Bill plumbeous ; irides dark-brown ; legs plumbeous. 
-Head, neck, and breast, black ; rest of the plumage deep chesnut 
or cinnamon, passing to glistening marone on the upper tail-coverts, 
and tinged with fulvous on the tail; a stripe down the middle of 
the belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, black. 
The Chesnut-bellied Munia is a very rare straggler to parts of 
the Deccan. 
Amadina punctulata, Zin. 
699.—Munia wndulata, Lath—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, 
p. 354; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 495; 
Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 415. 
THE SPOTTED MUNIA. 
Length, 4°5 ; wing, 2°2 ; tail, 1°5 ; tarsus, 0°75; bill at front, 0-4. 
Bill plumbeous ; irides brown ; legs plumbeous. 
Above ruddy-brown, deeper on the head and neck, inclining 
to whitish ontherump, andthe upper tail-covertsand margins of the 
lateral tail-feathers, glistening fulvous ; quills, chesnut externally, 
dusky within ; beneath, the chin and throat, with the face and ear- 
