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Rh Coloration. Upper plumage, scapulars, and wing-coverts chocolate-brown, the .shaft of each feather white ; upper tail-coverts black ; tail blackish, with broad shiny fulvous margins ; wings blackish ; lores, cheeks, chin, throat, breast, sides of the body, thighs, and under tail-coverts black ; abdomen and under wing-coverts white, the white of the abdomen forming an angle in the breast.

Legs and feet dusky plumbeous or dull smalt-blue ; lower man- dible dull smalt- or pale blue ; upper mandible brownish black or black ; iris dark brown (Hume $- Dav.).

Length about 4*5 ; tail 1/8 ; wing 1*9 ; tarsus '55 ; bill from gape '45.

Distribution. The extreme south of Tenasserim, ranging down the Malay peninsula and to Borneo.

Habits, $'c. Davison took a nest of this species in Tenasserim in April. The eggs appear to measure about *65 by -44.

732. Uroloncha pectoralis. The Rufous-bellied Munia.

Munia pectoralis, Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 355 (1863) j Hume, N. $ E. p. 448 ; id. S. F. iii, p. 263, iv, p. 403.

Amadina pectoralis (Jerd.), Hume, Cat. no. 700.

Uroloncha pectoralis (Jerd.), Sharpe, Cat. S. M. xiii, p. 365 ; Oates in Hume's N. % E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 136.

Coloration. Upper plumage chocolate-brown with pale shafts, the head a darker brown ; the rump blackish, with broad triangular streaks of pale buff; upper tail-coverts glistening fulvous; tail black ; wings dull black ; lores, cheeks, chin, throat, and fore neck black ; ear-coverts buff with pale shafts ; sides of the fore neck, sides of breast, breast, sides of the body, and the whole abdomen pinkish brown ; vent and under tail-coverts blackish, with pinkish-brown streaks.

The young are plain chocolate-brown above with fulvous upper tail-coverts, and have the lower plumage buff with pale shaft-streaks.

Bill, legs, and feet slaty ; iris brown (Miss Cockburn).

Length nearly 5 ; tail 1*8 ; wing 2*2 ; tarsus '5 ; bill from gape *45.

Distribution. The hills on the western coast of India from the Wynaad to Travancore.

Habits, fyc. Appears to breed chiefly in June and July. The eggs measure about *62 by '44.

733. Uroloncha kelaarti. The Ceylon Munia.

Munia kelaarti, Bluth, Jerd. B. 1. ii, p. 356 (1863) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 299 ; Hume, F. vii, p. 410 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 650, pi. xxvii, tig. 2.

Amadina kelaarti (Blyth), Hume, Cat. no. 700 bis.

Uroloncha kelaarti (Blyth), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 366.

We-kurulla, Ceyl. ; Tinna kuruvi, Tarn.

Coloration. Upper plumage chocolate-brown with pale shafts,