MUNIA. 689 
701. MUNIA JAGORI Martens. 
PHILIPPINE WEAVER, 
Munia (Dermophrys) jagori “Cabanis,” Marvrens, Jour. fiir Orn. (1866), 
14. 
Munia jagori SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 337; Grant and 
WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 245 (eggs); WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 241 
(habits) ; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 105. 
Munia brunneiceps GRANT, Ibis (1895), 261; (1896), 554 (=jagori in worn 
plumage). 
? Fringilla minuta MEYEN, Nov. Act. Acad. C. L. C. Nat. Cur. (1834), 16, 
suppl. prin. 86, pl. 12. 
Bi-ching, Benguet; mai-ya, Ticao; md-ja, Bohol. 
Balabae (Everett); Bantayan (McGregor); Banton (Celestino) ; Batan (Me- 
Gregor); Basilan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Bohol (Everett, Steere 
Exp., McGregor); Bongao (Hverett); Cagayan Sulu (Mearns); Calamianes 
(Bourns & Worcester) ; Calayan (McGregor); Cantanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu 
(Meyer, Steere Eaxp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Fuga (McGregor); Gui- 
maras (Steere Exp.); Leyte (Everett, Steere Exp., Bartsch); Lubang (Mce- 
Gregor) ; Luzon (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Masbate 
(Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Mindanao (Steere, Murray, Everett, Steere 
Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Mindoro (Steere Hxap., Bourns & Wor- 
cester, McGregor); Negros (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay, 
Whitehead, Celestino); Palawan (Whitehead, Bourns & Worcester, White) ; 
Panay (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Polillo (McGregor) ; Romblon (Bourns 
& Worcester, McGregor); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Semirara 
(Worcester) ; Sibay (McGregor & Worcester); Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, 
McGregor) ; Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester); Sulu (Guwillemard, Bourns & Wor- 
cester, Bartsch) ; Tablas (Bourns & Worcester) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester) ; 
Ticao (McGregor). 
Adult.—Entire head, chin, throat, and chest blackish brown; hind neck 
and sides of neck usually lighter or chocolate-brown, sharply defined 
against the chestnut of back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and edges of quills; 
sides of breast, flanks, and a narrow band across breast chestnut, brighter 
than the back; middle of lower breast, abdomen, thighs, and crissum, 
black or blackish brown; rump and tail-coverts deep maroon; tips of 
longest coverts and edges of two central rectrices golden brown or orange- 
rufous. Iris dark brown; bill, legs, and nails hght horn-blue. A pair 
from Luzon measure: Male, length, 120; wing, 54; tail, 39; culmen from 
base, 11; tarsus, 16; female, wing, 54; tail, 38; culmen from base, 10; 
tarsus, 13. 
Young.—Head and neck hair-brown; back and wing-coverts wood- 
brown, tail-coverts lighter; throat creamy buff; breast, abdomen, and 
erissum yellowish buff; rectrices and wing-feathers dark brown edged with 
buff. 
The Philippine chestnut weaver, or rice bird, is abundant throughout 
the Islands. It is extremely social in its habits and in many cases a 
