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shot : tliey do not take long flights, but merely from bush to bush. 
I observed numbers of them in the leafless caper, on the banks of 
the river Bheema. It breeds, I conclude, twice in the year, as I 
have found its nest in the months of November and March. The 
nest, in two instances, was formed of the flower-stems of the silk- 
grass, which is abundant in the beds of streams, and lined with 
feathers and the silky seeds of the grass. The largest number of 
eggs I have found was six." — (Lieutenant Burgess.) 
" Two pairs of this bird are frequently, if not usually, employed 
in the construction of one nest, and in which the two hens conse- 
cutively lay ; so the same nest has sometimes twenty-five eggs in it, 
in dififerent stages of incubation. Nest often clumsily and hastily 
made, but usually a neat domed structure of fine grass, with one 
opening, sometimes prolonged into a short deflected neck, partially 
closed by the elasticity of the spikes of grass forming it ; sometimes 
the nest is a simple platform of grass, open at one end, but the grass 
ends curved over to meet at the top ; usually placed in thorny 
bushes, often very conspicuous, and close to roads. It is much to 
be doubted if the eggs found occasionally in October and December 
are hatched."— (W. Theobald, Jun., Esq.) 
777. MUNIA LEUCOGASTBOiDES, Moore. 
Fringilla striata, apud Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Sac. XITI. 
p. 161. 
Pmt, Java, Sorsfield. 
A. h. Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 
M. leucogastroideSf Moore. — Upper parts throughout dark brown, 
without any trace of whitish shafts to the feathers ; throat and breast 
brown-black ; belly and flanks white ; vent and thighs brown. 
Size the same as M. striata^ Linn. This differs from M. striata v. 
leuconota, Temm. in having the back concolorous with the rest of the 
upper parts, and in having no trace of whitish shafts to the feathers ; 
and from M. leucogastra, Blyth, it differs in having the flanks white 
instead of the same colour as the throat and breast, and the tail in 
M. leucogastrdides has no yellowish-fulvous margins. 
778. MUNIA ACUTICAUDA, Hodgson. 
Munia acuticauda, Hodgs.^As. Bes. XIX. p. 153 (1836). 
Spermestes (Lonchura) acuticauda, Hodgs.y Gray's Zool. 
Misc. p. 84. 
