700. PADDA ORYZIVORA (Linnæus).
JAVA SPARROW.
- Loxia oryzivora Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 173.
- Munia oryzivora Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 328; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 105.
Maí-an͠g cos′-ta, Manila.
Guimaras (Steere Exp.); Luzon (Heriot, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Mindanao (Steere); Panay (Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Bourns & Worcester). Java, Sumatra, Malacca.
Adult (sexes similar).—Lores, entire top of head, chin, fore throat, rump, upper tail-coverts, and rectrices black; sides of head and ear-coverts white forming a large conspicuous patch; entire back, lower throat, fore breast, sides of throat and of breast, secondaries, and secondary-coverts lilac-gray; lower breast, abdomen, and flanks dark vinaceous; thighs and crissum white; alula, primaries, and primary-coverts slate-gray, edged with cinereous. Bill, legs, and nails pink. A male from Luzon measures: Length, 135; wing, 69; tail, 49; culmen from base, 16; tarsus, 18.
Young.—Above smoke-gray and drab-gray; breast and throat light drab-gray; sides of face, chin, abdomen, thighs, and crissum cream-buff.
The Java sparrow occurs in some abundance in the vicinity of Manila, but is rarely found in other localities in the Philippines.
Genus MUNIA Hodgson, 1836.
In Munia the bill is shorter in proportion to its width than in Padda; rectrices slightly graduated and, except the two of three outer pairs, sharply pointed at their tips.