144 Lord Walden on a further Collection of 
“S. Andaman: March 28, $, iris dark brown; bill dark 
horn-colour, lighter below; legs flesh-yellow .” 
Undistingnishable from Lake Baikal examples. 
87. Munia fumigata, Walden, Ann. N. H. (4), xii. p. 488, 
“S. Andaman” (Dec. 1873). 
Munia leuconota (Temm.), Ball, Str. Feath. i. p. 79. no. 90, 
" Andaman” (1873), nec Temm. 
“S. Andaman: Feb. 11.” 
The following Asiatic species constitute, together with this 
Andaman bird, a well-defined subgroup of the genus Munia :— 
Uropygium white. 
(1.) Loxia striata, Linn.*, S. N. i. p. 306. no. 37 (1766), 
ex Briss. Orn. iii. p. 243, “ Isle de Bourbon.” 
Loxia albiventris, Herm. Observ. Zool. p. 205, “Tranque- 
baria” (1804). 
Fringilla leuconota , Temm., PL Col. 500. fig. 2, “ Bengal ” 
(1830). 
Dorsal plumage pale-shafted; abdominal region and flanks 
pure white. 
Ceylon, Peninsular and Central India, Lower Bengal. 
(2.) Munia acuticauda, Hodgson, As. Bes. xix. p. 153, 
“Nipaul” (1836). 
Munia molucca (Linn.)? Blyth, Cat. Calc. Mus. p. 117. 
no. 626, nec Linn. 
Abdominal plumage white faintly marked with pale brown; 
middle rectrices elongated. 
Nipal, Sikim, Himalayas, Assam, Mergui, Burma, Malacca, 
Hainan to Shanghai, and westwards to Szechuan, Formosa. 
In Malaccan birds the pale brown hastate markings on the 
abdomen are better defined and much more pronounced. 
* Relying on the short preliminary diagnosis given by Brisson (l. c.), 
I referred (Ibis, 1869, p. 211, note) the Javan species, M. leucogastroides , 
Moore, to L. striata , Linn. A renewed study of the Brissonian text has 
enforced me to alter this opinion. Unless the Island of Bourbon possesses 
a species of Mania , or that of Java a second species, more perfectly agree¬ 
ing with Brisson’s description, it will be most convenient to retain the 
Linnsean title for the Indian-peninsular form, if we do not reject it al¬ 
together. 
