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Title: A monograph of the weaver-birds, Ploceidand arboreal and terrestrial finches, Fringillid
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bartlett, Edward, d. 1908
Subjects: Weaverbirds Finches
Publisher: Maidstone : Published by the author
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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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. The 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 Manias ; 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. II.Wallace, which is in the British Museum.
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V. W FroKawk del ^ lith . Hanliarb imp . Fiq 1 TVrUNIA MEL:ElSrA. (7. FORBESI, d.SPECTABILIS. 0-. MUNIA MELyENA.THE DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND MUNIA, PLATE VIII. (Fig. 1). Mania melcena, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 66, pi. vii. fig. 2.Munia hemimelona (err. ?), Sclater, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. QQ.Munia melmia, Reichnw. et Schal., Jonrn. fiir Ornith. 1880, p. 322.Munia melama, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xvi. 1880, p. 192.Munia melcena, Salvadori, Omit. Papuasia, p. 439 (1881). Figure. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, pi. vii. fig. 2. Habitat. New Britain. Duke of York Island (Brown). Nigra; nropygio, caudfe tectricibus superioribus et rectricum margini-bus externis castaneis ; cauda acuminata, rectricibus duabus mediisquam cajteraj longioribus ; ventre medio rufo, hypochondriis nigrovariegatis, crisso nigro ; alls extus et dorso postico fuscescenti-nigris, subalaribus rufescentibus ; rostro crasso et pedibus nigris.Long, tota 4*3, alaj 2, caudie 1*3 (P. L. Sclater). Male. Head and

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