Oxycerca jagori (not Munia jagori Martens) Cabanis, Jour. für
Orn. (1872), 317.
Munia cabanisi Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 353
(new name); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 242; McGregor and Worcester,
Hand-List (1906), 105.
Luzon (Meyer, Heriot, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester,
Whitehead, McGregor, Bartsch); Mindoro (Porter); Panay (Bourns
& Worcester).
Adult (sexes alike).--Upper parts, including secondary-coverts and
tertials, dark hair-brown with whitish shaft-lines; tail-coverts and
rectrices light yellowish green; lores dusky; face and ear-coverts
brown with light shaft-lines; chin and middle of throat vandyke-brown
with lighter shaft-lines; feathers on the remaining under parts white
with white shafts and white edges, each feather with a broad, median,
brown mark and a wide brown band around the feather, next to the white
edge, producing a peculiar and characteristic pattern. Iris light
brown; bill horn-blue, the upper mandible darker especially toward
the tip; legs and nails horn-blue. A male from Benguet Province,
Luzon, measures: Length, 108; wing, 48; tail, 39; culmen from base,
10.5; tarsus, 13. A female, wing, 48; tail, 36; culmen from base,
11; tarsus, 13.
Young.--Upper parts broccoli-brown, darker on crown; under parts
cream-buff, nearly white on middle of abdomen and on crissum.
Cabanis's weaver is sometimes found in small flocks, but it is much
rarer than either Munia jagori or Uroloncha everetti.
"A large flock of Cabanis's weavers was seen in an open field in
Panay, but this species was not again found by us. A female measures:
Wing, 50; tail, 37.5; culmen, 11; tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw,
17." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
Genus UROLONCHA Cabanis, 1851.
The genus Uroloncha as represented in the Philippines differs very
little from Munia; in the two species of Uroloncha found here
the plumage is all, or nearly all, chocolate-brown, the tail is
wedge-shaped, and the central pair of rectrices, although pointed,
are less acute than in Munia.
Species.
a1. Feathers of back and wing-coverts with white shaft-lines; middle
of abdomen white. ... everetti (p. 691)
a2. Feathers of upper parts without white shaft-lines; abdomen
chocolate-brown uniform with the rest of the plumage. ... fuscans
(p. 692)