PL0CE17S MANYAE. 



(THE STRIATED WEAVER-BIRD.) 



Fringilla manyar, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 160 (1820). 



Ploceus manyar (Horsf.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 115 (1849) ; Layarcl, Ann. & Mag. 



Nat. Hist. 1S54, xiii. p. 257 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 514 (1856) ; 



Jerdon, B. of Ind. ii. p. 348 (1863); Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 208; Hume, Nests 



and Eggs, ii. p. 440 (1874); Oates & Hume, ibid. 1875, p. 154 ; Butler & Hume,-f. c. 



p. 495 ; Butler, ibid. 1877, p. 221 ; Davison & Hume, ibid. 1878 (B. of Tenass.), 



p. 401 ; Ball, ibid. vii. p. 222 ; Cripps, t. c. p. 292. 

 1 Ploceus bengalensis, Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 125. 



Ploceus striatus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1842, xi. p. 873; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 463. 

 The Black-throated Weaver-bird ; Black-breasted Weaver-bird of some. Bamani Baya, 



Hind., Deccan ; Telia Baya, Bengal. ; Baivoyi, in Rungpore ; Manyar, Java. 



Adult mali' and female. (British Museum, " India ") "Wing 2-7 to 2-81 inches; tail 1-9 to 2-0; tarsus 07 to 0-8; 



middle toe - 65, claw (straight) 0-28 ; bill to gape 0-65, height at nostril 0-38. Length 5-8 inches (Jerdon). 

 (Java) Wing 2-7 to 2-8 inches ; tail 2-0 ; tarsus 0-8. 

 Iris brown; bill "black" (Jerdon) ; legs and feet fleshy. 



Breeding-plumage. Head and crown rich glistening yellow, forming a point on the nape ; cheeks, ear-coverts, chin, 

 and throat brownish black ; hiud neck, interscapular region, and scapulars blackish brown, the feathers margined 

 with tawny ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts lighter brown than the hind neck, with paler margins to the 

 feathers ; wings and tail brown ; the inner secondaries broadly edged with fulvous ; the primaries and tail-feathers 



PADDA ORTZIVORA. 



(THE JAVA SPARROW.) 



Loxia oryz'wora, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 302 (1766). 



Amadina orizivora (L.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 118 (1849). 



Munia orizivora (L.), Bonap. Consp. Gen. At. p. 451 (1850). 



Padda orizivora (L.), Hume, Nests and Eggs, ii. p. 454 (1874j. 



Fringilla orizivora, Bligh, J. A. S. (Ceylon Branch), 1874, p. 67. 



The Java Grosbeak, Latham. Glate, Java ; Gelatik, Sumatra (Horsf.) ; Mam Giro,, in Bengal (Blyth). 



Adult male. (Ceylon, December 1870) Length 5-8 inches ; wing 2-7 ; tail 1-8 ; tarsus 0-75 ; middle toe and claw 0'8 . 

 bill at front 0-6. 



(Java, Lombok, Tenasserim) Wing 2-6 to 2-8 inches; tail 1-9 ; tarsus 0*65 to 0-75; middle toe - 6; bill to gape 0-5. 



Iris red ; bill fleshy red at base, paling to fleshy towards the tip ; legs and feet fleshy. 



Entire head and gape black, encompassing a large white patch which covers the cheeks and ear-coverts ; upper surface, 

 wings, entire neck, and chest delicate dove-grey ; primaries tinged with brown ; upper tail-coverts and tail black, 

 the tail less intense than the coverts ; breast, belly, and flanks isabelline red, blending into the grey of the chest ; 

 vent and under tail-coverts white. 



A Lombok example has the breast and abdomen darker red than one from Java ; a specimen from Tenasserim is albes- 

 cent on the abdomen. 



Obs. A handsome species allied to this one is P. fuscata ; it has the head and throat black, enclosing a similar white 



