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dozen of its globular nests may be found within a radius of a few meters. 
The nests are frequently built among the branches of a common species 
of pandanus which grows on sa beaches. Chestnut weavers in great 
numbers, and Munia cabanisi, Padda oryzivora, and Uroloncha everetti 
in lesser numbers, are captured in nets and sold, either in the Manila 
markets for food or on the streets as cage-birds. 
“This chestnut weaver finch feeds in large flocks and is much prized 
by some of the inhabitants as an article of food, its small size being com- 
pensated for by the fact that a score can be killed at one discharge of a 
gun. It seems to breed throughout the year; its bulky nest is placed in 
the grass, and is composed entirely of grass stems and leaves; the entrance 
is around opening at the side. The eggs are pure white and more or less 
globular; from six to ten eggs are deposited in a set.” (Bourns and 
Worcester MS.) 
702. MUNIA FORMOSANA Swinhoe. 
FORMOSAN WEAVER, 
Munia formosana SwINHOoE, Ibis (1865), 366; SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. (1890), 13, 338; Grant, Ibis (1895), 112; WuireHEAD, Ibis 
(1899), 242; McGrecor and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 105. 
Luzon (Whitehead). Formosa. 
Adult.—This species is very similar to M. jagori from which it may 
be distinguished by its smoky brown head and neck; fore part of crown 
and sides of face blacker. The measurements of the type as given by 
Sharpe and changed to millimeters are: Length, 96.5; culmen, 11.4; 
wing, 48; tail, 35.5; tarsus, 15. 
“Munia formosana Swinhoe, of which a specimen was recorded from 
Isabela, north Luzon, appears to be a distinct pale-colored form, the head, 
even in freshly-molted male examples, being of a dark smoky brown. In 
addition to the specimens recorded in the Catalogue of Birds, I have 
examined a number of Formosan examples of this species in the Seebohm 
collection.” Grant, [bis (1896), 554. 
703. MUNIA CABANISI Sharpe. 
CABANIS’S WEAVER. 
Oxycerca jagori (not Munia jagori Martens) CABANIS, Jour. fiir Orn. 
(S72), SLT. 
Munia cabanisi SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 353 (new name) ; 
WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 242; McoGrecor and WorcESTER, Hand-List 
(1906), 105. 
Luzon (Meyer, Heriot, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, 
McGregor, Bartsch) ; Mindoro (Porter); Panay (Bourns € Worcester). 
Adult (sexes alike).—Upper parts, including secondary-coverts and 
tertials, dark hair-brown with whitish shaft-lines; tail-coverts and rec- 
trices light yellowish green; lores dusky; face and ear-coverts brown 
with light shaft-lines; chin and middle of throat vandyke-brown with 
