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Family Artamidje. 
175. Artamus leucorhynchus (L.). 
[Iris dark hazel ; bill light blue ; feet dull brown. 
This is a common species, frequenting open spaces, more especially where dead trees remain standing 
after forest fires. 
The nest is composed of light grey stalks and small roots, which assimilate well with the bleached 
trees on which they are built; it is lined with finer roots and grasses. 
Eggs three, laid in June, creamy white in colour, slightly spotted with grey and light brown, 
especially at the larger end, where a zone is formed with blotches of the same colour. Axis 1‘05 inch, 
diam. O’7.] 
Family PloceiDjE. 
176. Padda oryzivora (L.). 
[This species is, I believe, an importation of Sir Hugh Low, the late Governor of Labuan. It 
is now too plentiful to please the natives, doing great damage to their rice-fields. I have never seen it on 
the mainland of Borneo, though Labuan is only a few miles distant. The Sarawak Dyaks, I believe, are 
fond of these birds, and purchase them in Labuan, so no doubt before many years are past it will be 
common throughout Borneo. 
Native Bornean name “ Pipit Java.”] 
177. Munia fuscans (Cass.). 
[This little Munia was at one time more common in Labuan than it now is, having been driven away 
by its larger ally, which, again, in no distant future will be driven before the ever-increasing hordes of 
Padda oryzivora. 
It is now by no means common in Labuan, where it frequents the rice-fields and gardens, nesting in 
the fruit-trees. The nest is a large ball of various grasses with a small hole at the side, around which 
project the seed-ends of many grasses, almost hiding the entrance. 
The eggs are five, pure white, and may be found in January and other months : axis O'6 inch, 
diam. 045. I met with this species on Kina Balu up to 1500 feet. 
Native name “ Pipit itham.”] 
178. Munia brunneiceps, Walden. 
[One of the commonest species, found in open districts, where it is ever ready to pounce on the 
ripening rice of the natives. In some places these little pests (unless the fields are carefully guarded) get 
more rice than the native himself. They nest in numbers in gardens ; the structure is similar to that of 
M. fuscans, the eggs being also white. Axis 065 inch, diam. 0'45. I have often turned out seven or 
eight birds from one of their old nests in the evening, and am at a loss to know how they could possibly 
pack together into such a small place. 
Native name “ Pipit,” which is evidently given them from their note “ Pipe-pipe,” which they 
frequently utter.] 
179. Chlorura borneensis, sp. n., Sharpe. 
Adult male. General colour above bright grass-green ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median 
and greater coverts black, externally green, like the back ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black, 
fringed with green ; quills black, edged with somewhat lighter green fringes on the primaries, the 
secondaries externally like the back ; upper tail-coverts like the hack; centre tail-feathers olive-green, 
with black bases, the remainder black edged with green, the outermost with an ashy greenish spot at the 
end ; forehead black, succeeded by a blue crown, the hinder part of the crown like the back ; lores, eye¬ 
brow, feathers round the eye, ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, fore neck, and breast pale tawny, deeper on the 
fore neck and breast; abdomen light oclireous buff, washed with green; sides of body and flanks light 
