_Munia cabanisi_ Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 13, 1890, p. 353.
(Type locality, Luzon.)
_Munia punctulata cabanisi_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia,
1922, p. 78 (Yap).
_Lonchura punctulata cabanisi_ Yamashina, Tori, 7, 1932, p. 395
(Yap); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 171 (Yap);
Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 189 (Yap).
_Geographic range._--Philippine Islands and Micronesia. In
Micronesia: Palau Islands; Caroline Islands--Yap.
_Characters._--A small finch with upper parts light grayish-brown,
feathers with white shafts producing a streaked appearance; lores,
anterior part of auriculars, malar region, and feathers of chin
and throat chocolate-brown with faint white shafts; breast and
sides mottled white and dark brown, middle of abdomen and under
tail-coverts pale buffy-white, wings brown with lighter edges,
under wing dark with lighter coverts; upper tail-coverts and
middle tail feathers dark olive, outer tail feathers colored like
wings; bill heavy and black; feet dark brown.
_Remarks._--The Philippine Nutmeg Mannikin is a resident on the island
of Yap. Yamashina (1932a:395) records a nest containing one egg taken
there on May 15, 1932. Marshall (1949:221) records this bird at Palau on
November 6 and December 2, 1945. Whether this bird was introduced to Yap
and Palau by man or whether it reached there by independent invasion is
unknown.