UROLONCHA. 187 



Coloration. Upper plumage, scapulars, and wing-coverts chocolate- 

 broxvn, the .shaft of each feather white ; upper tail-coverts black ; 

 tail blackish, with broad shiny fulvous margins ; wings blackish ; 

 lores, cheeks, chin, throat, breast, sides of the body, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts black ; abdomen and under wing-coverts white, 

 the white of the abdomen forming an angle in the breast. 



Legs and feet dusky plumbeous or dull smalt-blue ; lower man- 

 dible dull smalt- or pale blue ; upper mandible brownish black or 

 black ; iris dark brown (Hume $- Dav.). 



Length about 4*5 ; tail 1/8 ; wing 1*9 ; tarsus '55 ; bill from 

 gape '45. 



Distribution. The extreme south of Tenasserim, ranging down 

 the Malay peninsula and to Borneo. 



Habits, $'c. Davison took a nest of this species in Tenasserim in 

 April. The eggs appear to measure about *65 by -44. 



732. Uroloncha pectoralis. The Rufous-bellied Munia. 



Munia pectoralis, Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 355 (1863) j Hume, N. $ E. 



p. 448 ; id. S. F. iii, p. 263, iv, p. 403. 

 Amadina pectoralis (Jerd.), Hume, Cat. no. 700. 

 Uroloncha pectoralis (Jerd.), Sharpe, Cat. S. M. xiii, p. 365 ; Oates 



in Hume's N. % E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 136. 



Coloration. Upper plumage chocolate-brown with pale shafts, 

 the head a darker brown ; the rump blackish, with broad triangular 

 streaks of pale buff; upper tail-coverts glistening fulvous; tail 

 black ; wings dull black ; lores, cheeks, chin, throat, and fore neck 

 black ; ear-coverts buff with pale shafts ; sides of the fore neck, 

 sides of breast, breast, sides of the body, and the whole abdomen 

 pinkish brown ; vent and under tail-coverts blackish, with pinkish- 

 brown streaks. 



The young are plain chocolate-brown above with fulvous upper 

 tail-coverts, and have the lower plumage buff with pale shaft-streaks. 



Bill, legs, and feet slaty ; iris brown (Miss Cockburn). 



Length nearly 5 ; tail 1*8 ; wing 2*2 ; tarsus '5 ; bill from 

 gape *45. 



Distribution. The hills on the western coast of India from the 

 Wynaad to Travancore. 



Habits, fyc. Appears to breed chiefly in June and July. The 

 eggs measure about *62 by '44. 



733. Uroloncha kelaarti. The Ceylon Munia. 



Munia kelaarti, Bluth, Jerd. B. 1. ii, p. 356 (1863) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 299 ; Hume, F. vii, p. 410 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 650, pi. xxvii, 

 tig. 2. 



Amadina kelaarti (Blyth), Hume, Cat. no. 700 bis. 



Uroloncha kelaarti (Blyth), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 366. 

 We-kurulla, Ceyl. ; Tinna kuruvi, Tarn. 



Coloration. Upper plumage chocolate-brown with pale shafts, 



