28 NILS GYLDENSTOLPE, ZOOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS TO SIAM. 
Munia punctulata topela inhabits Southern China, Northern Siam, Hainan and 
Formosa. _ 
A near ally is the next species which, however, is a more southern form, inhabiting 
Burma and Tenasserim, being replaced still further south in the Malay Peninsula and 
some of the Sunda Islands by another form UM. p. nisoria Temm. Munia p. topela is, as 
far as I can see, quite a distinct form. It has the upper tail-coverts and the tail shaded 
with yellowish green; the rump is ashy olive with paler almost white narrow edges to the 
feathers; the upper parts of the body are decidedly more brownish than those in M. p. 
subundulata and the bars of the flanks are dusky blackish (in M. p. subundulata the 
bars on the flanks are pure brown). 
27. Munia punctulata subundulata. Gopw. Aust. — The Spotted Munia. 
Munia punctularia: Gould p. 151; Schomburgk p. 263. 
Uroloncha punctulata: Williamson I p. 44. 
Q Koh Lak *%/11 1914. L = 110 mm.; W = 52,5 mm.; T = 42,3 mm.; C = 11,5 mm. — Irides: 
reddish brown. Bill: black. Legs: plumbeous. 
This race of the Spotted Munia was rather rare though it occured on suitable local- 
ities in the Siamese Malaya at least as far south as to Koh Lak where it was observed 
and obtained. 
‘4 28. Uroloncha acuticauda squamicollis. Suarrs. 
o Koon Tan */: 1914. L = 113 mm.; W = 48 mm.; T = 42 mm.; C = 10,8 mm. — @ Bang Hue 
Pong 77/5 1914. L = 112 mm.; W = 48 mm.; T = 47 mm.; C = 11 mm. — Irides: red (¢), reddish brown 
(2). Bill: black, lower mandible plumbeous. Legs: blackish brown. 
Among the higher mountains of Northern Siam I obtained two specimens of a 
Munia which I have referred to U. acuticauda squamicollis, SHarPE. This species has 
previously only been found in Southern China, Hainan and Formosa. 
U. a. squamicollis which I only consider as a subspecific race of the common U. 
acuticauda Hopes. is separated from that bird, which I also have obtained in Siam though 
in more southern localities, by its much darker colouring which especially is prominent 
on the throat, chin and upper breast. The feathers of the foreneck and those of the 
lower breast are margined with rufous brown and of a scaly appearance. These feathers 
have faint indistinct whitish shaft-stripes. The upper parts of the body especially the 
forehead and the crown which are almost black, are much darker and have distinct whit- 
ish shaft stripes. 
29. Ploceus passerinus infortunatus. Harr. — The Eastern Baya. 
Ploceus atrigula: Bonhote p. 67; Grant p. 69. 
Ploceus megarhynchus: Williamson I p. 44. 
@ Chieng Hai 2/, 1914. L = 120 mm; W = 62,3 mm.; T = 44 mm.; C = 12 mm. — Irides: brown. 
Bill: yellowish brown. Legs: flesh colour. 
