. A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidae, and arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillidae . erv. Mr. Wallace states that this bird is very near Munia maja (L.), but differs inthe much paler colouring of both the upper and under surface. TiiK Pallid Munia is an insular form which so closely resembles the White-headed Munia, that I doubt whether it can really be separated, although Igive it as distinct, on the authority of Mr. A. R. Wallace who discoveredit in Celebes. The three pale-headed birds here described verge one into the other in E-IO 52 the same manner as the three last Black-he
. A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidae, and arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillidae . erv. Mr. Wallace states that this bird is very near Munia maja (L.), but differs inthe much paler colouring of both the upper and under surface. TiiK Pallid Munia is an insular form which so closely resembles the White-headed Munia, that I doubt whether it can really be separated, although Igive it as distinct, on the authority of Mr. A. R. Wallace who discoveredit in Celebes. The three pale-headed birds here described verge one into the other in E-IO 52 the same manner as the three last Black-headed Munias ; therefore it issomewhat difficult to say which is the older form, although 1 am inclined toregard the Javan or Black-throated bird as the type. This bird appearsto be extremely rare in collections, and according to Mr. Wallace is verylocal, and almost exclusively confined to Lombok and Flores. I amunable at present to give any details of its habits or nidification. It isnow figured for the first time, from the specimen procured by Mr. A. , which is in the British f V/.Frohawk del ^ IitK . Fig 1 MUNIA MELJEKTA, < „ E ORB E SI, d . 0 „ SPECTABILIS, o Han^iarb mqp . MUNI A MEL^ DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND MUNIA. PLATE VIII. (Fig. 1). Munia mclcena, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 66, pi. vii. fig. hemimelcrna (err. ?), Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. melrena, Reichnw. et Schal., Jonrn. fiir Ornith. 1880, p. melcena, Salvadori, Ann. Mns. Civ. Gen. xvi. 1880, p. nielce?ia, Salvadori, Ornit. Papuasia, p. 439 (1881). Figure. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, pi. vii. fig. 2. Habitat. New Britain. Duke of York Island (Bioum). Nigra; uropygio, caudte tectricibus superioribus et rectricum margini-bus externis castaneis ; cauda acuminata, rectricibus duabus mediisquam caeterae longioribus ; ventre medio rufo, hypochondriis nigrovariegatis, crisso nigro ; alis extus et dorso postico fuscescenti-nigris, subal
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