Munia

Small-bodied birds with short beaks and long tails . Body length 10-12 cm. The color of the plumage is a combination of brown and black and white flowers. Males and females are colored the same, young ones are more dull.

They live throughout South Asia . The area of ​​distribution of certain species covers New Guinea , Sri Lanka , India , Myanmar , Thailand , Sumatra , Malaysia , Borneo , Timor , Java , Lombok and also southeast China .

Inhabit open spaces. They feed mainly on seeds.

The nest is a large domed grass structure. In clutch 4-10 white eggs .

All types of munias easily get used to captivity and live in these conditions for a long time up to 18 years or more.

The genus includes 38 species:

• The eastern black-headed munia Lonchura atricapilla ( Vieillot , 1807 ) is sometimes considered a subspecies of the black-headed munia ( L. malacca atricapilla )
• Black and White Amadina Lonchura bicolor ( Fraser , 1843 )
• Gray-headed Munia Lonchura caniceps ( Salvadori , 1876 )
• Silver- billed Amadina Lonchura cantans ( Gmelin , 1789 )
• Chestnut Amadina Lonchura castaneothorax ( Gould , 1837 )
• Bronze-winged Amadina Lonchura cucullata ( Swainson , 1837)
• Javanese munium Lonchura ferruginosa ( Sparrman , 1789)
• Yellow munium Lonchura flaviprymna (Gould, 1845 )
• Striped-breasted munia Lonchura forbesi ( Sclater , 1879 )
• Lonchura fringilloides ( Lafresnaye , 1835 )
• Brown Amadina Lonchura fuscans ( Cassin , 1852 )
• Big Moon Lonchura grandis ( Sharpe , 1882 )
• Pearl-headed Amadina Lonchura griseicapilla Delacour , 1943
• Gray-necked Munia Lonchura hunsteini ( Finsch , 1886 )
• Lumbar Amadina Lonchura kelaarti ( Jerdon , 1863 )
• White-bellied Amadina Lonchura leucogastra ( Blyth , 1846 )
• Javanese Amadina Lonchura leucogastroides ( Horsfield & Moore , 1858 )
• Spotted Amadina Lonchura leucosticta ( Albertis & Salvadori , 1879)
• White-headed Munia Lonchura maja ( Linnaeus , 1766 )
• Malabar Amadina Lonchura malabarica (Linnaeus, 1758 )
• Black-headed munia Lonchura malacca (Linnaeus, 1766)
• Thick-billed Amadina Lonchura melaena (Sclater, 1880 )
• Moluccan Amadina Lonchura molucca (Linnaeus, 1766)
• Alpine munia Lonchura montana junge , 1939
• Alpine Munia Lonchura monticola ( De Vis , 1897 )
• Yellow breasted munium Lonchura nevermanni Stresemann , 1934
• Funeral munia Lonchura nigerrima ( Rothschild & Hartert , 1899 )
• Brown- backed munia Lonchura nigriceps (Cassin, 1852)
• Pale-headed munia Lonchura pallida ( Wallace , 1863)
• White-bellied Munia Lonchura pallidiventer Restall , 1996
• Lonchura punctulata Scaly-breasted Amadina (Linnaeus, 1758)
• The five-color munia Lonchura quinticolor ( Vieillot , 1807)
• The magnificent munia Lonchura spectabilis (Sclater, 1879)
• Lonchura striata sharp-tailed bronze amadina (Linnaeus, 1766)
• Black munia Lonchura stygia Stresemann, 1934
• Black-chested Munia Lonchura teerinki Rand , 1940
• Mourning Amadina Lonchura tristissima (Wallace, 1865)
• The white-faced munia Lonchura vana ( Hartert , 1930 )

• Birds of India by Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp, ISBN 0-691-04910-6 .
• Birds of The Gambia by Barlow, Wacher and Disley, ISBN 1-873403-32-1 .