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PLOCEID. 
PLOCEIN&. 
Pappa, Reichenbach. 
151. Pappa oRYzIVORA. 
The cock Padda, or Rice-bird, Edwards, Nat. Hist. i. pl. 41, “ China.”’ 
Loxia oryzivora, Linn. Amen. Acad. iv. p. 243, no. 16 (1759), ex Edwards; v. Martens, J. f. O. 
1866, p. 14, no. 59; Walden, Tr. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 72. 
Observed by Dr. y. Martens in the Museum of the Military Library at Manilla, and, 
in all likelihood, an indigenous species. 
Monts, Hodgson. 
132. * MuUNIA JAGoRI. 
Munia (Dermophrys) jagori, Cab., vy. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 14, no. 60, “ Luzon.” 
Dermophrys jagori, Cab. op. cit. 1872, p. 316, no. 6. 
Munia minuta (Meyen), G. R. Gray, Hand-list, no. 6761. 
Hab. Zebu, April (Meyer). 
Two examples (3 2, fide Meyer) of an almost black-headed Munia were obtained in 
Zebu by Dr. B. Meyer. Both have the upper tail-coverts glistening dark chestnut, 
and the middle pair of rectrices rich glistening ferruginous. In the male the black 
extends from the breast to the under tail-coverts, forming a broad, mesial, black, con- 
tinuous band. In the female this black mesial band is interrupted by a chestnut band 
crossing the breast. In examples of WM. rubro-nigra from the Deyra Doon, Bengal, 
Tippera, Mymensing, and Tongoo, as well as of M. formosana from Formosa, and WM. 
brunneiceps from Celebes and Banjarmassing, the black mesial band is not continuous, 
nor is it so broadly developed on the abdomen. In M. rubro-nigra the whole head is 
intensely black. In MW. formgsana the occiput and nape are faded brown; and Mr. 
Swinhoe has established that this is normal in the adult bird (Ibis, 1865, p. 356). The 
Philippine, Celebean, and South-Bornean forms do not appear to have the head so 
intensely black as in M/. rubro-nigra, although darker than in MW. formosana. 
In the Philippine examples the head and nape are not of a true black, but rather of a 
dark brown. ‘This has also been pointed out by Dr. Cabanis (/. c.). In M. brunneiceps 
of Celebes the head is still less black, and the black abdominal band is interrupted. 
As the synonymy of M. atricapilla and M. rubro-nigra, thoroughly disentangled 
by Mr. Blyth (Cat. Cale. Mus.) and by Mr. Moore (Cat. E. I. C. Mus.), has again 
been thrown into confusion by Mr. Gray (Hand-list), it may be useful to recapi- 
tulate it. 
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