| Tricoloured Munia | |
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| From West Bengal, India | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Estrildidae |
| Genus: | Lonchura |
| Species: | L. malacca |
| Binomial name | |
| Lonchura malacca (Linnaeus, 1766) |
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The Tricoloured Munia Lonchura malacca is a estrildid finch, native to India and Sri Lanka. The species was also introduced to Australia, Cuba, Hispaniola, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Venezuela.
Lonchura malacca (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into L. malacca and the Black-headed Munia or Chestnut Munia L. atricapilla.
The Tricoloured Munia is a small gregarious bird which feeds mainly on grain and other seeds. It inhabits wet grassland habitats. It may also be found in tropical lowland moist forest habitats.