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Lonchura tristissima

Includes White-spotted Munia

[edit] Identification

10 cm. Mainly dark brown with light streaking on head and yellowish rump.

[edit] Distribution

New Guinea.

[edit] Taxonomy

Several subspecies accepted.
Leucosticta from the lowlands of southern New Guinea is sometimes accepted as full species, White-spotted Munia.

[edit] Habitat

Streams, forest clearings and abandoned gardens.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes seeds, berries and insects.

It builds a globular grass nest with side entrance, often suspended from rattans, in forest or at forest edge.

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