28 NILS GYLDENSTOLPE. ZOOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE SWEDISH ZOOLOG1CAL EXPEDITIONS TO SIAM. 



Munia punctulata topela inhabits Southern China, Northern Siarn, 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 M. 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. Godw. Aust. The Spotted Munia. 



Munia punctularia: Gould p. 151; Schomburgk p. 263. 

 Uroloncha punctulata: Williamson I p. 44. 



$ Koh Lak 30 / n 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. 



28. Uroloncha acuticauda squamicollis. Sharpe. 



J Koon Tan 2 % 1914. L = 113 mm.; W = 48 mm.; T = 42 mm.; C = 10,8 mm. — $ Bång Hue 

 Pong 27 /5 1914. L — 112 mm.; W = 48 mm.; T = 47 mm.; C = 11 mm. — Irides: red (J 1 ), reddish brown 

 ($). 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 Hodgs. 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. Hart. — The Fastern Baya. 



Ploceus alrigula. Bonhote p. 67; Grant p. 69. 

 Ploceus megarhynchus : Williamson I p. 44. 



$ Chieng Hai 2 / 8 1914. L = 120 mm.; W = 62,3 mm.; T = 44 mm.; C = 12 mm. — Irides: brown. 

 Bill: yellowish brown. Legs: flesli colour. 



