UBOLONCHA. 189 



735. Uroloncha punctulata. The Spotted Munia. 



Loxia punctulata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 302 (1706). 



Loxia undulata, P. L. 8. Mull. Syst. Nat., Anhany, p. 151 (1776). 



Mimia undulata (Lath.}, Myth, Cat. p. 117; Horsf. $ M. Cat. ii, 



p. 506 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 354. 

 Munia punctulata (Linn.), Hume, N. Sf E. p. 444 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. 



p. 656 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 346. 

 Munia subundulata, Godw.-Aust. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 48 j Hume, S. F. 



iii, p. 398. 

 Munia superstriata, Hume, S. F. ii, p. 481 (1874) ; Hume 8f Dav. 



S. F. vi, p. 402. 



Munia inglisi, Hume, S. F. v, p. 39 (1877). 

 Amadina punctulata (Linn.), Hume, Cat. no. 699 ; Oates, B. B. \, 



p. 368 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 262. 

 Amadina subundulata (Godw.-Aust.), Hume, Cat. no. 699 bis ; id, 



S. F. xi, p. 272. 



Arnadiua superstriata (Hume), Hume, Cat. no. 699 ter. 

 Amadina inglisi (Hume), Hume, Cat. no. 699 quat. 

 Uroloncha punctulata (Linn.), Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, 



p. 141. 



Telia munia, Hind, in the North ; Sing-baz, Shinbaz, Hind, in the 

 Deccan and at Mussooree ; Shubz munia, Beng. ; Kakkara jinuwayi, Tel. j 

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



Coloration. Upper plumage dull chocolate-colour with the shafts 

 pale ; lower rump barred irregularly with brown and yellowish and 

 streaked with white ; upper tail-coverts glistening yellowish fulvous ; 

 tail fulvous-yellow ; wings chocolate, the coverts with pale shafts ; 

 sides of the head, chin, and throat rich chestnut ; lower plumage 

 white, each feather, with the exception of those on the abdomen, 

 subinarginally banded with fulvous-brown ; under tail-coverts 

 fulvous white mottled with black. 



The above description applies to birds from the Continent of 

 India, which, however, vary considerably among themselves in the 

 shade of colouring of the rump and the amount and distinctness of 

 the bars on this part. Birds from Assam, southwards to Burma, 

 are less distinctly barred on the rump, the general colour of which 

 and of the upper tail-coverts and tail is more olivaceous. Many 

 species have been established on these slight differences, but I am 

 unable to recognize them even as races, the differences being by no 

 means constant over the same small areas. 



Bill bluish black, paler and somewhat plumbeous on the lower 

 mandible ; iris deep reddish brown ; legs plumbeous ; claws horny. 



Length nearly 5; tail 1*7; wing 2'1; tarsus '6; bill from 

 gape *45. 



Young birds are rufous-brown above and pale buff below without 

 marks of any kind. 



Distribution. The whole continent of India, except Sind, the 

 Punjab, and portions of Eajputana and the N.W. Provinces, 

 ascending the Himalayas up to about 5000 feet ; Ceylon ; the 

 eastern part of the Empire from Assam to about the latitude of 



