UROLONCHA. 691 



lighter shaft-lines; feathers on the remaining under parts white with 

 white shafts and white edges, each feather with a broad, median, brown 

 mark and a wide brown band around the feather, next to the white edge, 

 producing a peculiar and characteristic pattern. Iris light brown; bill 

 horn-blue, the upper mandible darker especially toward the tip; legs 

 and nails horn-blue. A male from Benguet Province, Luzon, measures : 

 Length, 108; wing, 48; tail, 39; culmen from base, 10.5; tarsus, 13. 

 A female, wing, 48; tail, 36; culmen from base, 11; tarsus, 13. 



Young. Upper parts broccoli-brown, darker on crown; under parts 

 cream-buff, nearly white on middle of abdomen and on crissum. 



Cabanis's weaver is sometimes found in small flocks, but it is much 

 rarer than either Munia jagori or Uroloncha everetti. 



"A large flock of Cabanis's weavers was seen in an open field in 

 Panay, but this species was not again found by us. A female measures : 

 Wing, 50; tail, 37.5; culmen, 11; tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 17." 

 (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



Genus UROLONCHA Cabanis, 1851. 



The genus Uroloncha as represented in the Philippines differs very 

 little from Munia; in the two species of Uroloncha found here the 

 plumage is all, or nearly all, chocolate-brown, the tail is wedge-shaped, 

 and the central pair of rectrices, although pointed, are less acute than 



in Munia. 



Species. 



a 1 . Feathers of back and wing-coverts with white shaft-lines; middle of abdomen 

 ^vhite everetti (p. 691) 



a 2 . Feathers of upper parts without white shaft-lines; abdomen chocolate-brown 

 uniform with the rest of the plumage fuscans (p. 692) 



704. UROLONCHA EVERETTI (Tweeddale). 

 EVERETT'S WEAVER, 



Orycerca everetti TWEEDDALE, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 96; 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. (1877), 764, pi. 73, fig. 2. 



Uroloncha everetti SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 363; WHITE- 

 HEAD, Ibis (1899), 242; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 

 105. 



Bi-lit', Calayan. 



Balabac (Everett) ; Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; 

 Bohol (McGregor); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Calayan (McGregor); 

 Camiguin N. (McGregor); Catanduanes ( Whit ehead ) ; Cebu (Everett, Bourns 

 c Worcester); Guiinaras (Steere Exp.); Leyte ( Whitehead) ; Luzon (Everett, 

 McGregor) ; Mindanao (Koch & Schadenberg, Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; 

 Mindoro (Porter); Negros ( Whitehead, Celestino); Palawan (Everett, White- 

 head, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, White) ; Panay (Steere Exp.) ; 

 Polillo (McGregor); Romblon (Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Whitehead); 

 Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Tablas (Bourns & Worcester) ; Tawi 

 Tawi (Bourns d Worcester, Everett). 



