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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
345. AMADINA PUNCTULATA. 
THE BARRED MUNIA. 
Loxia punctulata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 302. Loxia undulata, Lath. Ind. Orn. 
i. p. 387. Munia undulata, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 354. Munia punctulata, 
Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 444 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 656. Munia subundu- 
lata, Godiv.-Aust. P. Z. S. 1874^ p. 48 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 398 ; Oates, S. F. v. 
p. 162. Munia superstriata, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 481 (footnote) ; Hume Sf Dav. 
S. F. vi. p. 402. Munia punctularia, Bl. 8r Wald. B. Burm. p. 93. Lon- 
chura punctulata, Hume, S. F. iii. p.l56. Munia inglisi, Hume, S. F. v. p. 39. 
Amadina punctulata, A. subundulata, A. superstriata et A. inglisi, Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 107. Amadina superstriata, Oates 8r Hume, S. F. x. p. 232. 
Description. — Male and female. Chin, throat and sides of the head rich 
chestnut ; lower plumage white^ all the feathers except those on the centre 
of the abdomen with zigzag marks of brownish fulvous ; upper plumage^ 
as far down as the rump^ chocolate-brown, the shafts more or less pale ; 
rump barred with whitish ; tail brown ; upper tail-coverts and the edges of 
the tail-feathers glistening yellow-fulvous ; primaries and secondaries brown, 
the edges and the tertiaries of the same colour as the upper plumage ; under 
wing-coverts buff. 
Bill bluish black, paler and somewhat plumbeous on the lower mandible ; 
iris deep reddish brown ; legs plumbeous ; claws horny. 
Length 4*7 inches, tail 1*7, wing 2'1, tarsus '6, bill from gape '45. The 
female is of the same size. 
I cannot separate the Burmese and Eastern-Bengal birds from the birds 
inhabiting India. Indeed quite recently Mr. Hume has himself suppressed 
his own two species, A. superstriata and A. inglisi, and I think that Colonel 
Godwin- Austen's species, A. subundulata, cannot be maintained. 
A. nisoria, from Malacca and Java, is a good and satisfactory species, 
which may be recognized by the upper tail-coverts being always grey. A. 
topela, from China, is likewise a very satisfactory species or race, the upper 
plumage being like that of the Indian bird, but the tail tinged with green 
and the underparts very indistinctly barred. 
The Barred Munia is one of the commonest birds of British Burmah, 
being found in Arrakan, Pegu and in Tenasserim as far dov/n as Tavoy. 
It extends north throughout all the Indo-Burmese countries, and it is 
spread over the whole of India, as far west at least as Mount Aboo and 
south to Ceylon. 
Mr. Blyth states that this species is found in Siam. The species which 
inhabits Cochin China, however, is stated by Dr. Tiraud to be A. topela. 
This pretty and familiar bird frequents gardens, compounds and 
tolerably well- wooded localities not far from villages. In summer it is 
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