Birds of Celebes: Ploceidae. 
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(Meyer h 3, Fischer yf); Grorontalo (Joest h 1]\ Banka (ISTat. OolL); Tagulandang 
and Siao (iid.); Gt. Sangi (Platen li 6)\ Peling (Nat. Coll, h 10)\ Sula Islands 
(Leyden Mus. h 7). 
4. Munia molucca propinqua. 
0 . Munia molucca (1) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 168. 
p. Munia molucca propinqua (1) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 568, partim; (2) id., ib. 1897, 157, pt. 
Diagnosis. Usually ■with the bans belo'w slightly more obliterated than in Celebes examples, 
and thus standing nearer the form prvpinqiM of the Lesser Sundas {(^ Kalao, Dec. 
95: Everett — C 15150; Q Saleyer, Nov. 95: Everett — C 15151). 
Distribution. Saleyer and Kalao (Everett o 1). 
Observations. Mi’. Hartert at first affirmed that the birds of Saleyer and Kalao “agree 
entirely with specimens from Celebes” (o 1)', then (p 1), that “the specimens from Kalao 
must probably be considered to belong” to the subspecies propmgMa; then again (p 2) 
he remarks: “Celebes examples are not, I thuik, separable from M. molucca typica, 
wdiile some of the Saleyer and Kalao specimens approach the M. molucca propinqua 
of the Lesser Sunda Islands”. 
A nation is represented by its average individual, and we believe that the 
average Saleyer and Kalao Munia will he passably well represented by the formula 
M. molucca C^propinqua, showing a nearer relationsliip to the Lesser Sunda birds 
than to the Moluccan ones. 
5. Munia molucca )> propinqua. 
“Sario”, Karkellang, Nat. ColL 
Diagnosis. The bars on the under surface slightly broader and blacker than in Celebes or 
Halmahera (4 examples from Karkellang, autumn, 1896). 
Distribution. Talaut Is. — Karkellang (Nat. Coll.). 
Remark. Here the formula employed is not strictly correct, for the Talaut birds seem 
to have the characters supposed to distinguish the Moluccan birds from those of the 
Lesser Sundas more strongly pronoimced than in the typical form — at least than 
in that of Halmahera. The fault of the matter is that the extremes of racial 
differentiation arc not yet known. Hartert speaks of Sumha birds as “very typical 
propinqua”, meaning, perhaps, that the characters which Sharpe made a reason for 
separating the Flores birds by that name, are more highly developed in Sumha. 
6. Munia molucca kangeaneusis (Vorderm.). 
q. Uroloncha kangeaneusis (IJ Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1893, LH, 199. 
Diagnosis. Like the Celebes form, but the breast and belly washed Avith an isahelline tint 
(? young), and the markings on the under parts finer (Vorderman). 
Distribution. Kangean Islands. 
The following is a general description of the species: 
Adult. Sinciput and sides of head, chin, throat and jugulum black; upper-parts 
bistre-brown, duskier on the wlng-coA^eils; rump w'hite, with vermiculate bars of 
black; quills, tail and upper tail-coverts black; under-parts Avhite, with vei- 
miculate bars of black; under wing-coverts cinnamon-buff, quills below on inner 
web washed with the same colour. Iris brown; bill and feet bluish black (Guill. h 5); 
