MUNIA. 689 



701. MUNIA JAGORI Martens. 

 PHILIPPINE WEAVER. 



Munia (Dermophrys) jagori "Cabanis," MARTENS, 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) ; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 105. 

 Munia brunneiceps GRANT, Ibis (1895), 261; (1896), 554 (= jagori in worn 



plumage ) . 

 f Fringilla minuta MEYEN, Nov. Act. Acad. C. L. C. Nat. Cur. (1834), 16, 



suppl. prin. 86, pi. 12. 



Bi-ching, Benguet; mai-ya, Ticao; md-ja, Bohol. 



Balabac (Everett] ; Bantayan (McGregor] ; Banton (Celestino) ; Batan (Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Basilan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett, Steere 

 Exp., McGregor]-, Bongao (Everett]-, Cagayan Sulu ( M earns ); Calamianes 



(Bourns d 'Worcester]; Calayan (McGregor]; Cantanduanes ( Whitehead) ; Cebu 



(Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor] ; Fuga (McGregor] ; Gui- 

 maras (Steere Exp.) ; Leyte (Everett, Steere Exp., Bartsch) ; Lubang (Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Luzon (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Masbate 



(Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindanao (Steere, Murray, Everett, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., 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 (Guillemard, 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 denned 

 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 light 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 

 crissum 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 



