232 A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF PEGU. 
The genus Ploceélla may be described thus: Tail rounded, 
the outer tail featlears falling short of the centre ones by 
double the distance of that in Ploceus; bill from nostrils to 
tip as long as the height of the bill at the nostrils, Its mode 
ef nidification removes it widely from Ploceus as already 
pointed out (‘ Nests and Eges of Indian Birds.”’) 
The male commences to change into breeding plumage 
about the middle of May, and the full change is effected by the 
Ist June. In the winter months the male is undistinguishable 
from the female. 
315.—Amadina rubronigra, Hodgs. (698.) 
Very abundant in all the plains of the province. 
316.—Amadina superstriata, Hume. (699 bis.) 
Pegu birds appear referable to this species and not to subun- 
dulata.* It is excessively common over the whole province in 
suitable localities. 
317.—Amadina acuticauda, ZHodgs. (702.) 
Comparatively rare, but found in all parts of Pegu. 
318.—Estrelda flavidiventris, Wail. (EH. burmanica, 
Hume.) (704 bis.) 
Very common in the plains on both sides the Canal and 
extending down to Rangoon and Elephant Point. 
The adult male undergoes no changes of plumage, being the 
same allthe year round.t ‘The sides of the face, the chin, 
throat, breast, and sides of neck are crimson, the two latter parts 
speckled with white ; sides of the body pale red, much spotted 
with white; belly and vent yellowish red; the under tail- 
coverts vary somewhat. In most they are blackish brown or 
black, tipped with maroon. Some have the centres of the 
feathers whitish, tinged with pink, the edges paler, and the tips 
maroon; in others the feathers are uniformly blackish brown. 
Upper surface of body pale greenish, washed with crimson; the 
rump with short transverse lines or elongated spots of white ; 
upper tail-coverts crimson, speckled with white; tail black, 
the four outer pairs of rectrices tipped white; the upper series 
of wing-coverts plain brown, the others brown, each feather 
with a terminal spot of white; quills plain brown, the ter- 
tiaries with white tips. 
* T am in fault here. This species is very variable. Having now procured an 
immense series in Manipur, whence Godwin-Austen’s types came, I find that subun- 
dulata covers both superstriata and inglisi, and in my account of the birds of 
Manipur I have suppressed both these species.—Ep, 8. F. 
+ This is very remarkable, Is Mr. Oates quite certain of the fact? In the very 
closely allied H. amandava, the adult male has two quite distinct plumages, the 
breeding crimsov, and non-breeding brown—EpD, 8. F. 
