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Birds of Celebes: Ploceidae. 
* 227. MUNIA SUBOASTANEA Hart. 
Doherty’s White-headed Munia. 
Munia subcastanea (1) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1897, 161. 
Diagnosis. Like M. pallida, but the back and wings darker, hair-brown as against broccoli- 
brown; the under tail-coverts, concolorous with the lower breast, abdomen, sides, and 
tliighs, dark hazel, much darker than tlie cinnamon-rufous of the body below of Munia 
pallida', rump hazel with a gloss of light sienna, uniform with the upper tail-coverts 
and outer edges of the rectrices; “iris dark brown; bill bluish grey, commissure and 
tip corneous”: wing 51 mm; tail 39; tarsus 15; bill from nostril 7.5 (o’, type, Dongala, 
W. Celebes, Aug. 1896: Doherty in the Tring Museum). 
“The skin marked ‘g’ is like those of the males, but the rump, upper tail- 
coverts, and edges of the central rectrices lighter and more yellowish” (Hartert). 
Distribution. West Celebes — Dongala and Tawaya (Doherty). 
The discovery of a new Munia in W est Celebes with affinities to M. pallida 
of the South is certainly surprising. Mr. Doherty obtained three specimens 
only, one of which, the type, Mr. Rothschild has had the kind courtesy to lend 
us; from this it is easily seen that, though its affinites are with M. pallida, 
they are two well differentiated species. 
228. MUNIA PUNOTULATA (L.). 
Spotted Munia. 
Dr. R. B. Sharpe (Cat. B. XIII, 346 — 354) recognises five races of this species, 
the form occurring in Celebes being: 
Munia punctulata nisoria (Temm.). 
Munia nisoria (Temm.) (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIH, 73; (2) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 
132; (3) Sharpe, Cat. B., XHI, 1890, 353; (4) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1896, 
Nr. 1, p. 13. 
For further synonymy and references cf. Sharpe 3. 
Adult. Above broccoh-brown, the feathers with whitish shaft-lines, the terminal margins 
paler; upper tail-coverts oclmaceous; tail greenish drab, greener on the middle 
feathers; face, ear-coverts, chin and throat umber-chestnut, the shafts paler on 
face and ear-coverts; under parts cream- white, not barred on the abdomen and 
thighs, only slightly so on the under tail-coverts, elsewhere marked with U-shaped bars 
of infous bro’ivn; under wing-coverts buff; remiges below, where they rest upon 
the body, bro'Nvner buff, elsewhere and tail below duller brown [(^, Macassar, July 
1895: P. &F. Sarasin). 
“Ms dark brown; feet blackish; maxilla black, mandible slate-colour” — Doherty, 
Lombok. 
Female. Resembles the male ($, Lake Posso, Centr. Cel., 15. H. 95: P.&F. S.). 
Young. Without the chestnut face and throat and without bars on the under parts: above 
uniform broccoli- brown, tail washed with ochraceous; under parts pale isabelline, 
darker on the face and sides [rf juv.. Pare Pare, S. Cel., 1. YIH. 95: P.& F. 8.). 
