246 F. Stoliczka — Mammals and Birds inhabiting Iiaehh. [No. 3, 
variation in the plumage, perhaps the first step to albinism. The wing 
varies in four specimens from 5'5 to 5 9 ; tail 3'5 to 3'75 ; tarsus 1’4 to 
16 ; bill at front 065 to 0’7 inch. 
685. Aceidotheees GnrartfiAmrs. 
Not very common, except locally in the eastern parts of Kachli ( Wagur 
district). In young specimens from Bengal the bill is blackish green at 
base, the wing spot pure white and the under tail coverts and tips of tail 
feathers dusky white, intead of pale ferruginous. 
In addition to the three species, given by Jerdon, G. It. Gray (ITandl., 
II, 20) separates A. grand is, Hodgs. = cristatellm, Vig., from Nepal, 
and ? ater, V., = griseus, Blyth (part), from Pondicherry. 
687. Tementjchus eaoodaetjm. 
Bare. I have seen it only on three or four occasions in pairs. Jerdon’s 
description is rather short. It should state that the lengthened brown fea- 
thers pass round the whole neck. The two middle tail feathers are ashy 
brown, and blackish along the shafts, the remainder dark brown, tipped 
with white, the latter colour increasing in amount towards the outer feathers ; 
lower tail and under coverts of the wings white, tihial feathers ashy white ; 
there is a small black spot at the base of the lower mandible, and the chin 
quite in front is also tinged blackish. 
690. Pastor eosees. 
Very common from about the middle of November. G. B. Gray (Handl. 
II, 19) quotes the Indian bird as distinct from the European and Western 
Asiatic under the name P. ? pegmnus, Less. I do not know whether a second 
species exists in Barma, but surely the Western Indian bird is not different 
from the European one, which in former years I had very abundantly seen 
in various parts of Hungary. It is a rare bird in Western Europe. 
694. Ploceus baya. 
This is the smaller bird,* described by Jerdon under the above name. 
Although nests were very numerously seen on branches overhanging river 
banks &e., the buds themselves were very rare ; most of them must have 
retired to some other more wooded districts, but they are said to return in 
the rainy season, when they breed. 
703. Munta Maeabaeioa. 
Extremely common. I found the species breeding abundantly during 
November, December and January in deserted nests of the weaver bird, P. 
baya ; and I was told by my shikari that the Munia never builds its own 
nest, always using that of baya , as soon as the latter had finished breeding 
at the end of the rains. However, I have at least on two occasions seen a 
Munia working on an imperfect nest of the P. baya, evidently the birds 
* Comp, ante, p. 167. 
