600 AVES. 



internal outline band to the typical cross-bars of M. undulata can be traced on the 

 flanks of this species. 



56. MuNiA TJNDULATA, Latham. 



The Cowry Bird, Edwards, Birds, vol.i, pi. xl, 1743. 



Eastern Grosbeak, Latham, Gen. Syn. SuppL, p. 155, 1787. 



Loxia undulata, Latham, Ind. Orn., vol i, p. 386, 1790. 



Lonchura nisoria, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1832, p. 94. 



Munia lineov enter, Hodgson, Asiatic Researches, vol. xix, p. 154, 1836j id., in Gray's Zool. Misc., 



p. 84, 1844. 

 Spermestes nisoria, Jerdon, Madr. Journ., vol. xi, p. 26, 1840. 

 Loxia punctularia, Pearson, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. x, p. 647, 1841. 

 Amadina punctularia, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xiii, p. 949, 1844; Strickl., Ann. Nat. 



Hist., vol. xiii, p. 38, 1844. 

 Munia punctularia , Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, Coll. Hodgs., p. 106, 1846. 

 Amadinaundidata,^\j\h,Zo\xYTi.K^.'^OQ,., Bengal, vol. xv, p. 37, 1846; Gray, Gen. B., vol. ii, 



p. 372, 1849 ; id., Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 56, 1870. 

 Munia undulata, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 116, 1849; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B., 



vol.ii, p. 506, 1856; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 354, 1863; Holdsw., Proc Zool. Soc, 1872, 



p. 464; Godwin- Austen, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxxix, p. 110, 1870. 

 Munia similaris, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxxvii, 1868, p. 56; Walden, Ibis, 1869, 



p. 211. 



a. S Bhamo, 22nd February 1868. 



The birds in Upper Burma appear to belong to this species, but Major Godwin- 

 Austen remarks that the Munipur birds agree with those from Burma in the 

 possession of the Marquis of Tweedale, and he has separated these as M. subundulata.' 

 He considers the species to be allied to M. nisoria of Java. 



Genus Estrilda, Swainson. 



57. EsTRiLDA FLAviDiVENTHis, Wallace. 



Ustrilda Jlavidiventris, Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1863, pp. 486, 495; W. Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, 



p. 461. 

 Estrilda flavidiventris, Gray, Handl. B., vol. ii, 1870, p. 51. 

 JEstrilda burmanica, Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. iv, 1876, p. 484; Gates, ^^. a"/., 1877, p. 163. 



a. Bhamo, 7th February 1868. 



b. t Tsitkaw, 7th February 1875. 



c. Muangla, 8th May 1868. 

 d. e.f. Sanda, 29th July 1868. 



g, h. a Momien, June 1868, 1st July 1868. 



These specimens are perfectly undistinguishable from the types in the British 

 Museum with which they have been compared. 



It is not uncommon, but local about Tsitkaw at the foot of the Kakhyen hills 

 in the valley of the Irawady. It extends into the high country to the east as far 



1 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1874, p. 48. 



