BIRDS OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE, 723 



Family Irenid^*. 



949. (254) Irena pueUa puella. The Fainj Blue-Bird. 



Coracias puella Lath., Ind. Orn. %., p. 171 (1790), (India) 

 (Travancore). 



India, N. and Central Burma. 



950. (254) Irena puella cyanea. The Malay Fairy Blue-Bird. 



Irena cyanea Begbie, Malayan Penin., p. 516, date {Malay 

 Pen). 



Extreme S. of Tennasserim and Siam. 



Family PLocEiNiE. 

 Sub-family Ploceince. 



95 ». (720) Ploceus philippinus philippinus. The Baya. 



Loxia philippina Li7in., Syst. Nat. (XII), p. 305 (1766). 

 (Ceylon). 

 Ceylon and the greater part of India. 



952. (721) Ploceus philippinus megarhynchus. Finn's Baya. 



P. megarhynchus Hume, Str. Feath. Hi., p. 406 (1875), 

 (Kaladoongi, Nainital). 



Himalayas about Nainital. ? Extent of range. 



953. (721) Ploceus philippinus passerinus. The Eastern Baya 



p. passerinus Reichenoiv, Zool. Jahrb. i., 1886, p. 156, (Nepal) 

 Eastern Sub-Himalayas, Bengal, Assam, N. Burma and 

 Siam. 



954. (721) Ploceus philippinus infortunatus. The Malay 



Baya. 

 Ploceus passerinus infortunatus Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix., 

 p. 611 (1902), (Sungei Leheh). 



South Siam, Tennasserim and Malay Peninsula. 



955. (722) Ploceus benghalensis. The Black-throated Weaver- 



Bird. 



Loxia benghalensis Linn., Syst. Nat. p. 305 (1766), (Bengal). 

 N. India, Assam, Manipur and Chin Hills. 



95<5. (723) Ploceus manyar manyar. The Striated Weaver-Bird. 

 Fringilla manyar Hors., Trans. Lin. Soc. xiii., p. 160 

 (1820), (Java). 

 Java, Bali, Malay Pen. to S. Tennasserim. 



* Oberholser has recently (Oct. 1917) created this family for the two genera Irena 

 and Glauconympha (Jour. Wash. Acad. Sc. VII., No. 17) which he seems to think 

 should be placed near the Bulbuls. Whilst agreeing that Irena cannot be placed in 

 any known family, I think it may eventually find a place nearer the Cochoa group of 

 Thrushes. I cannot separate Irena and Glaitconymjiha. 

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