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The immature birds have the iris orange or orange 
red, the feet s'aty black or black. 
Wings. 3 99, 98, 98, 98, 96, 98 (imm.), 96° (tmm.); 
2 91, 90 (imm.); sex inc., 104 ad., 92. (imm.). 
Very common in large flocks ; feeds on fruit, wild and 
cultivated, is very fond of the fruit of Cinnamomum 
burmanni BI. 
Nests in the most different places: in Coconut and 
Areca palms, in hollows in dead tree trunks ; near Padang 
Tarap I found their nests in hollows they had. apparently 
dug out themselves in the perpendicular walls of. volcanic 
tuff.; on the island of Simalur (Westcoast. Atjeh) I found 
their nests in bamboo stakes, which the natives had stuck 
in the water near the beach to fasten their nets on. 
The eggs are pale bluish green. 
PLOCEIDAE. 
313. Munia oryzivora (Linn.). 
Fey) Gar &, (I pe 127. 
?. Bencoolen town. 
Iris crimson, bill pale pink, tomia white, feet purplish 
pink. 
Wing 65 mm. 
I found this species only in the town of. Bencoolen and 
its surroundings, where it must have been introduced from 
Java. It seems not to have spread along the coast or 
further inland in this locality. In the Padang Lowlands 
and Highlands it is not indigenous and only known as a 
cage bird imported from Java. This is very curious con- 
sidering the extensive rice cultivation of these parts of 
Sumatra. 
It appears to be common, in Deli, N. E. Sumatra. 
314. Munia maja. (Linn.). 
R. & K., I, p. 240. 
6.6, ad. ¢ imm. Fort de Kock, Padang: High- 
lands, 920 M. 
39. Balun, Muara Labu, Padang Highlands, 
460 M. 
Iris very dark brown, bill bluish grey, feet plumbeous. 
Wings, 6. 57, 56, 53, 53, 53, 52.5; 2 53, 53, 52 mm. 
The young male (wing 51) is dull brown throughout 
above and below buffy white with brown. patches on the 
breast. J 
Lives in open country and near villages. When the 
rice is ripe it gathers in large flocks of some hundred birds 
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