688 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



700. PADDA ORYZIVORA (Linnaeus). 

 JAVA SPARROW. 



Loxia oryzivora LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 173. 

 Munia oryzivora SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 328; Mc- 

 GBEGOB and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 105. 



Mai-ang cos'-ta, Manila. 



Guimaras (Steere Exp.) ; Luzon (Heriot, Steere Exp., Bourns <& Worcester, 

 McGregor) ; Mindanao (Steere) ; Panay (Bourns d Worcester) ; Samar (Bourns 

 & Worcester). Java, Sumatra, Malacca. 



Adult (sexes similar). Lores, entire top of head, chin, fore throat, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, and rectrices black; sides of head and ear- 

 coverts white forming a large conspicuous patch; entire back, lower 

 throat, fore breast, sides of throat and of breast, secondaries, and 

 secondary-coverts lilac-gray; lower breast, abdomen, and flanks <l;irk 

 vinaceous; thighs and crissum white; alula, primaries, and primary- 

 coverts slate-gray, edged with cinereous. Bill, legs, and nails pink.' A 

 male from Luzon measures : Length, 135 ; wing, 69 ; tail, 49 ; culm en from 

 base, 16; tarsus, 18. 



Young. Above smoke-gray and drab-gray; breast and throat light 

 drab-gray; sides of face, chin, abdomen, thighs, and crissum cream-buff. 



The Java sparrow occurs in some abundance in the vicinity of Manil.i. 

 but is rarely found in other localities in the Philippine. 



Genus MUNIA Hodgson, 1836. 



In Munia the bill is shorter in proportion to its width than in Padda; 

 rectrices slightly graduated and, except the two or three outer pairs, 

 sharply pointed at their tips. 



Species. 



a 1 . Back and wing-coverts chestnut; head, throat, and chin black or blackish 

 brown (adult). 



ft 1 . Head black jagori i j 



6 2 . Head dark smoky brown formosana (p. ;:M. 



a 2 . Back and wing-coverts hair-brown or wood-brown; head nearly uniform with 



the back. 

 6 1 . Upper parts with white shaft-lines ; chin and middle of throat rich vandyke- 



brown ; remainder of under parts mottled (adult) cabanisi (p. 690) 



ft 3 . Upper parts without shaft-lines; chin and throat nearly uniform with 

 remaining under parts which are not mottled (young). 



c\ Larger; breast and abdomen rich buff.... ... P agori <P- 689 ) 



(formosana (p. 690) 



c 2 . Smaller; breast and abdomen cream-bull' cabanisi (p. 690) 



