1875. J Finches. 93 



*204. M. PTJNCTTILAEIA (J. 699). 



Arakan, Pegu, Tenasserim, Siam. The true Indian race, as distinguished 

 from the kindred M. nisoria (Tern.), which inhabits the Malayan peninsula, 

 and has ash-coloured upper tail-coverts. 



[Rangoon, Tonghoo {W. £.). the Burman spotted Munia, as repre- 

 sented by Mr. Eamsay's examples, belongs to M. sul-undulata, Godwin- 

 Austen (J. A. S. B. xliii. p. 370, May 6, 1874), M. super striata, Hume (Str. 

 Feath. ii. p. 481, note, Oct. 1874), being a synonym.] 



*205. M. act/ticatoa (J. 702). 



Arakan, Tenasserim, Siam, Malacca, Sumatra, China, Formosa. This 

 species is the Fringilla muscardina of the Leyden Museum, a systematic 

 name which is adopted for it by Mr. Gould.* In Japan it is extensively 

 bred, white, partially white, and of pale colouring. 



[Tonghoo hills (W. i?.); Thayet Myo (0.). I cannot find that Mr. 

 Gould employed the title of muscardina in any part of the Z. S. Proceed- 

 ings of 1859.] 



*206. M. leuconota (J. 701). 

 Tau-tsa, " Forest Sparrow." 

 Arakan. Of general diffusion. 



207. AsTRILDA AMAETAVA (J. 704). 



Mason includes this species (the common Speckled Waxbill, Araadavat, 

 or Lai Munid of India) without remark ; and Sir R. H. Schomburgk notices 

 its occurrence in Siam, as also Mr. Gould (from specimens sent by Schom- 

 burgk),! " Many are brought to Bangkok for sale. They frequent the rice- 

 fields and pastures, and go in flocks." I do not remember having seen 

 Burmese specimens ; but Jerdon notices that the range of the species extends 

 to Assam and Burma, which Mr. W. T. Blanford assures me is the fact. 



Fam. Fringillidse. 



True Finches. 

 Subfam. Passerine (Sparrows). 



*208. Passes indictts (J. 706). 

 P. domesticus, var. (?), Ibis, 1867, p. 41. Em-tsa (House Sparrow). 



Not uncommon at Akyab, but rare to the southward, in the jungle-clad 

 provinces. Common, together with P. montanus, at Thayet Myo. Nubian 

 specimens are undistinguishable. 



* P. Z. S. 1859, p. 150. t P. Z. S. 1859, p. 150. 



