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PLOCEIDAE. 



Weaver-birds and Munias. 



^ f Wing more than 2.4 inches 

 (Wing less than 2.4 inclies 



., ( Breast' plain 

 " \ Breast striped 



o j Back and wings green 

 1 Back and wings not green 



, f Back not striped 

 iBack with pale shaft-stripes 



f. { Head and throat white 

 (Head, throat and breast black 



n f A white rump-patch 

 \ No rump patch 



„ f Breast and flanks blackish brown 

 [Breast and flanks banded brown and white 



PloccHs passerinus infortunatus 

 P. manyar flaviceps 



Erythrura yrasina 



Munia maja 

 ilf. atricapilla 



M. a. acuticauda 



M. I. leucogastra 

 M. punctulata suhimdulata 



Ploceus manyar flaviceps Less. 



Ploceus flaviceps, Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, p. 435 (Pondicherry). 

 Ploceus manyar, Williamson, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam. ii, 1917 , 

 p. 192 (Bangkok). 



Compared with a typical series from Java, Siamese birds are 



less iDriglitly coloured and should, therefore, he recorded as above. 



The species has not been met with in the Peninsula. 



523. Ploceus passerinus infortunatus Hartert. 



Ploceus passerinus infortunatus, Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix, 1902, p. 577 



(Kelantan). 

 Ploceus laya, A., p. 398 (Tavoy, Mergui) ; 0. i, p. 358 (Tenasserim). 

 Ploceus atrigula, E., p. 69 (Patani). 



Ploceus megarhynchus, G., p. 149 (Ratburi or Petchaburi). 

 Ploceus megarhynchus infortunatus, L., p. 117 (Pulo Panjang). 

 Ploceus philipjnnus infortunatus, M., p. 411 (Meklong). 



Ploceella javanensis chrysea Hume. 



[Ploceella] chryseus, Hume, Stray Feathers, vi, 1878, p. 399, note 



(Burma, i. e. Tenasserim). 

 Ploceella javanensis, 0. i, p. 362 (Siam); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., xiii, 1890, p. 474 (Tavoy; Siam); Gates, Fauna Brit. 



India, Birds ii, 1890, p. 180 (Siam). 



!• Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. 

 56, No. 2, 1916. 

 J. Robinson, Journ. F. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917. 

 K. Klosa, Ibis, 1918. 



L. Robinson and Kloss, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, 



iii, 1919. 



M. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



(first and second parts). 

 Mi I. Baker, op. cit., iv, 1920 (third part). 

 M. 2. Baker, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i, 1922. 



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