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the Indian countries and Malacca, which probably intergrade with hrunnekeps, 

 consequently we treat only of the three former as subspecies under the oldest 

 species-name, formosana. 



1. The typical Munia formosana, 



a. Munia formosana (1) Swinh., Ibis 1865, 366; (2) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1875, IX, 207; (3) 



David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 342; (4) Salvad., O. P. H, 1881, 438; (5) Sharpe, 



Cat. B. 1890, Xm, 338; (6) Grant, Ibis 1895, 112. 

 For further references cf. Sharpe a 5. 



Descriptions. Swinhoe a 1; David & Oust, a 3\ Sharps a 5. 

 Diagnosis. Head all round blackish brown, faded brown on occiput and nape. 

 Distribution. Toraiosa (Swinhoe a 1, a 5); Luzon (Whitehead fide Grant a 6). 



2. Munia formosana jagori (Marts.). 



b. Munia fDermophrys) jagori iCab. in Mus. BeroL] (Ij v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, 14. 



c. Munia jagori (1) Wald. a 2; (2) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 11, 1881, 437; (3) Wardl. Bams., 



Tweedd. Orn. Works, Index 18S1, 658; (4) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 

 142; (5) Sharpe, Oat. B., xm, 1890, 337; (6j Whitehd., Ibis 1890, 56; (7) 

 Steere, List Coll. B. & M. PhiUpp. Is. 1890, 23; (8) Hartert, J. f. O. 1891, 203; 

 (9) Sharpe, Iljis 1894, 257; (10) Grant, Ibis 1896, 554. 



d. Munia atricapUla (1) Sharpe, Ibis 1888, [202. 

 d^'\ Munia brunneiceps (1) Grant, Ibis 1895, 261. 

 For further references cf. Salvad. c 2, Sharpe c 5. 

 Descriptions. Salvadori c 2\ Sharpe c 5. 

 Diagnosis. Head all round entii-ely brownish black. 



Distribution. Plidippine Islands: — Lu^on, Cebu, Leyte, Bohol, Basdan, Tawi Tawi, Cala- 

 niianes, Tablas, Eomblon, Sibuyan, Siquijor, Catanduanes, Negros, Mindoro, Palawan, 

 Mindanao, Sooloo (c 3, c 6, c 5, c 7, c .9); Halmahera (Meyer c 2 and in Dresd. Mus.). 



+^3. Munia formosana brunneiceps (Wald.). 



€. Amadina sinensis (Ij Motl. & Dillw., Nat. Hist. Labuan 1855, 25, pi. 6'). 



/; Munia malacca fl) Sclat. (nee. L.j, P. Z. S. 1863, 219. 



g. Munia brunneiceps (I) Wald., Tr. Z. S.1872, Vm, 73 ph IX; (2) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Oiv. 

 Gen. 1875, VH, 666; (3) Wald. a 2; (4) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 138; (5) id., 

 Ztschr. ges. Om. 1885, 293; (6) Sharpe, Ibis 1889, 434; (7) Everett, J. Str. Br. 

 R. A. S. 1889, 142; (VIII) Bartl., Mon. Weaver-b. fig. pt. m (1889); (9) Sharpe, 

 Cat. B., xm, 1890, 338; (10) Biittik., Zool. Erg. Weber's Reise Ost. Ind. 1893, 

 m, 280; (11) Sharpe, Ibis 1894, 257. 



h. Munia jagori (1) Meyer, J. f. O. 1873, 405; (2) id., Ibis 1879, 132, 146. 



i. Munia atricapilla pt. (1) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 1874, 265. 



/ Amadina brunneiceps (1) Briigg., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 75. 



A-. Spermestes (Munia) brunneiceps (1) Russ, Gefied. Welt 1879, 382. 



/. Munia formosana brunneiceps (1) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 14; (2) iid., 

 ib. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 13. 



1; Dr. Sharpe believes this figm-e to be of the true M. atricapilla (Vieill.). 



