1863.] COLLECTED BY THK LATE JAMES MOTTLEY, ESa. 219 



91. Gracula javanensis (Osbeck), Bp. Consp. p. 422. 

 Very common here, as in Labuan. 



Fam. FRINGILLIDiE. 



92. Munia oryzivora (Linn.). 



Rather common here, and exceedingly destructive to the rice- 

 fields, feeding on them in vast flocks. These birds are taken in 

 thousands by the natives, and are a favourite article of food, being 

 exceedingly fat. In confinement they become very familiar, and 

 breed readily. I have a great number of them ; and many which 

 have escaped do not leave the house, but are constantly on the out- 

 side of the cage which formerly held them. 



93. Munia Malacca (Linn.). 



94. Munia fuscans, Cassin. 



Spermestes fuscans, Cassin, Pr. Acad. Phil. vi. p. 85, et Journ. 

 Acad. Phil. iii. p. 69, pi. 8. fig. 3. 



Common here, though less so than the last species. Its habits 

 are the same ; but its nest is commonly placed in hollow trees. 



[Mr. Wallace has similarly-coloured specimens of both sexes of this 

 little Finch in his collection from Sarawak. — P. L. S.] 



Fam. Melliphagidje. 



95. Phyllornis javensis (Horsf.), Horsf. & Moore, Cat. p. 260. 



Not very uncommon here, and almost always to be found where 

 any of the Loranthacece are in fruit. 



96. Iora viridissima (Temm.). 



Procured by my hunter (who said the note and flight attracted 

 his attention, and that the species was new to him) at the foot of the 

 Goenong Gurgaji Mountain. 



97. Zosterops , sp.? 



Burong barat, " west bird," only seen here during the west mon- 

 soon ; it frequents especially the flowers of the Lausat {Lausium 

 domesticurn) . 



[This Zosterops is closely allied to Z. fiava of Java, but is distin- 

 guishable by its brighter colouring above and below, the lores being 

 yellow instead of black, and the wing- and tail-feathers within being 

 brown and not black. It is of the same size as Z. fiava, and there- 

 fore can hardly be Z. montana of Sumatra, which is stated by Bona- 

 parte to be " similis Z. flavse, sed paullo major." — P. L. S.] 



Fam. Nectariniid^e. 



98. Dictum cruentatum (Linn.), Bp. Consp. p. 402. 

 Rather common in some localities. The nest of this very lively 



