1863.] BIRDS OF TIMOR, FLORES, AND LOMBOCK. 495 



quills and tail-feathers dusky, margined with olive-green ; under 

 wing- CO verts and inner margins of quills white ; iris dark ; bill black ; 

 feet lead-colour. 



Total length 5| inches ; wing 2|- inches ; bill, from front, |- inch. 



Hab. Lombock. 



MUNIA PALLIDA. 



Rufo-cinerea, subtus pallide rufa ; capite collogue albis, pectore 

 albescente, crisso caudaque rufo-castaneis, uropygio et caudee 

 tectricibus superioribus intense sericeo-castaneis. 



Above rufous ash ; beneath pale rufous ; head and neck white ; 

 breast tinged with rosy ash ; tail and under tail-coverts dark rufous ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts glossy chestnut-brown ; bill and feet 

 blue-lead ; iris dark. 



Total length 4-1 inches ; wing 2^ inches. 



Hab. Lombock and Flores. 



Remarks. — Very near Munia maja, L., but difiPers in the much 

 paler colouring of both upper and under surface. 



Amadina insularis. 



Fusco-cinerea, subtus albida ; gula et pectoris lateribus cinereis, 

 macula pectorali nigra undulata ; macula magna auriculari, 

 antice nigro marginata, rufa ; lateribus castaneis albo guttatis; 

 crisso albo et nigro variegato ; tectricibus caudee superioribus 

 valde elongatis, nigris, albo maculatis, subfasciatis. 



Very near Amadina castanotis, Gould, from Australia, from which 

 it differs principally in the chin and throat not being banded. The 

 female wants the rufous and black markings on the ear-coverts, 

 flanks, and breast ; iris reddish brown ; bill coral.red ; feet reddish 

 white. 



Total length 4 inches ; wing 2 inches. 



Hab. Timor and Flores. 



ESTRELDA FLAVIDIVENTRIS. 



Similis E. punicese ex Java, sed ventre dilute rubrojlavescente, 

 tectricibus caudee inferioribus nigris albo et rubido maculatis, 

 tectricibus albo terminatis. 



Ashy brown ; head and back red-tinged ; face, throat, breast, 

 and rump deep red; lower breast, belly, and vent yellow, washed 

 with red ; wing-coverts, tertiaries, sides of breast, and flanks with 

 numerous round white spots ; under tail-coverts black, with more 

 or less white at the base and apex of each feather, and sometimes 

 tinged with red ; the four outer tail-feathers on each side rather 

 broadly white-tipped ; bill blood-red ; feet very pale reddish ; iris 

 red. 



Total length 4 inches ; wing If inch ; tail If inch ; bill, to front, 

 ■| inch. 



Hab. Timor and Flores. 



Remarks. — In some specimens the white spots spread over the 



