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Dusky Munia
Lonchura fuscans (Cassin, 1852)
Estrildidae — Waxbills, Munias & Allies
Dusky Munia, Lonchura fuscans, is a passerine of the Estrildidae family found in Borneo and Mapun in the far west of the Philippines. It is a resident bird of lowland shrubland, forest, grassland, riverbanks, reed-beds, secondary scrub and cultivated ground, and it also occurs in foothills and rice fields from sea level to 500 metres. It is a monotypic species with no subspecies. The bird is also known as the Dusky mannikin and the Bornean munia.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Estrildidae — Waxbills, Munias & Allies
- Breeding range
- Oriental Region: Borneo and Mapun (=Cagayan Sulu, extreme w Philippines)
