Lonchura monticola De Vis, 1897

Adults: forehead and forecrown black, shading into blackish brown on nape; back dark earth-brown with a chestnut tinge; lower rump and upper tail-coverts pale yellow; central tail feathers broadly, others narrowly edged yellow; face, sides of neck, chin and upper throat black; breast whitish, faintly mottled with reddish brown and bordered posterior by a black band which continues down the flanks as ŕ stripe of blotched black and white; abdomen white; thighs and under tail-coverts black; iris dark; bill grey; feet grey-brown.