BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 401 



attains the complete yellow breast which the Continental Indian 

 one invariably acquires, then this latter, and not the larger 

 species, Blyth's baya, must be the true philippinus. 



And I may here note that Mr. Mandelli, who has had perhaps 

 hundreds of the larger species passing- through his hands, and who 

 has sent me at least a score, with full bright yellow crowns, has 

 never, he tells me to the best of his belief, obtained one with a 

 yellow breast like that assumed by the smaller Continental 

 Indian bird, though like myself he has had one , or two with a 

 few yellow feathers on the breast. 



695.-— Ploceus manyar, Horsf. (3). 



Kykheto ; Beeling ; Thatone. 



Confined apparently to the tract between the Salween and 

 the Sittang, and rare there. 



[I met with this species occasionally on the Thatone plain, 

 always in pairs and among the thick grass. The few that I did 

 see were very shy. — W. D.] 



696 bis. — Ploceus ? javanensis, Less. Descr. S. E., 

 III., 154 



This species was obtained at Tonghoo by Ramsay, but has 

 not yet been observed anywhere else in Tenasserim. 



698.— Munia rubronigra, *Hodgs. (13). 



(Tonghoo, Rains.) Yea-boo; Mergui. 



A summer visitant to parts, perhaps the whole of the 

 province. 



[This species appears to be a seasonal visitant to Tenasserim. 

 I first met with the species and obtained a specimen out of a 

 small flock at Yea-boo, on the Attaran River, on the 10th of 

 March 1874. In November and December there was not a single 

 one to be seen anywhere about Mergui, but in April and May 

 they swarmed, occurring in parties, consisting of a couple of old 

 birds and three or four young ones (others at the time having 

 nests with eggs), and in August last I saw large flocks about 

 the gardens and hill sides at Moulmein, where they certainly 

 do not occur in the winter months. In their habits and voice 

 they resemble the other Munias, going about in larger or smaller 

 flocks, and feeding on the ground chiefly on grass seeds. — 

 W. D.] 



* I follow Blyth and Moore in identifying atricapilla Vieill. Ois. Chant. 84, pi. 

 53, 1805, with the Chinese bird. Salvador!, however, U. di B. 265, says that he has no 

 doubt that Vieillot's name applies to rubronigra, and if he is correct, which from an 

 examination of the plate I doubt, it will of course have precedence. 



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