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the dark edging along the shafts of- the centre tail-feathers, which in 

 C. ruficollis are wholly dark, and in C. schcenicola are handed broadly 

 rufous, terminating black and white. It is very near to C. rustica,, 

 Wallace, from the Island of Bouru, which is more rufous on the head 

 and breast. 



MUNIA SUBUNDULATA, U. Sp. 



Description. — <S above pale umber-brown, darker on the head, 

 pale grey on rump, a few feathers edged paler ; the upper tail- 

 coverts dull yellow ; tail-feathers olivaceous umber-brown, faintly 

 edged with the same yellow tint ; quills pale chestnut on outer web, 

 umber-brown on inner, and indistinctly barred. Sides of head umber- 

 brown, becoming dark chestnut on chin and throat ; breast and 

 flanks white, feathers very narrowly barred or margined rufous- 

 brown ; abdomen and under tail-coverts dull white, the latter 

 sparingly streaked with brown ; feathers of the back hnely pale- 

 shafted. 



Bill dark grey ; feet plumbeous ; irides red. 



Length 4*3 inches, wing 2*1, tail l - 7, tarsus - 55, bill at front 0*45. 



2 is duller brown above, with no white shafts to the feathers, a 

 distinct green tinge upon the tail-feathers, otherwise as in M. 

 undulata. Change of coloration in young males commences on 

 centre of the throat, extending towards the base of bill into the dark 

 chestnut, and towards breast into the undulated colouring of those 

 parts. 



Obtained in the Munipur valley both on Lake Logtak and the 

 head of the Barak river. It is very nearly allied to, but distinct 

 from M. undulata, Latham, in which the undulations are broad, 

 the general coloration more rufous, and the tail more pointed. It 

 is also near to M. nisoria from Java and Malacca; but in that 

 bird the tail-coverts are grey, with no trace of the fulvescent common 

 to the two continental forms. Lord Walden was the first to notice 

 this species as distinct, in specimens from Burmah, in his collection, 

 which are identical with my own from Munipur : he has kindly 

 allowed me to now describe it. 



7. On the Coleoptera Geodephaga of Chile. 

 By Edwyn C. Reed, C.M.Z.S. 



[Received January 6, 1874.] 



(Plate XIII.) 



In this attempt to enumerate the Chilian species of the Coleop- 

 terous families Cicindelidee and Carabidse the first difficulty is to 

 define the area under consideration. The governmentsof Chili, Bolivia, 

 and the Argentine Confederation have been trying for some years 

 past to settle the question of the boundaries of their respective States. 

 Chili claims dominion over the strip of country between the Ancles 

 (?'. e. the line of water-parting) and the Pacific, from 24° S. to Cape 



