Tricolored Munia

The tricoloured munia is a small estrildid finch with brown eyes, a pale bluish-grey bill and grey legs. Like the chestnut munia, from which it was split, it has been called the black-headed munia. Immature birds are pale brown above and uniformly buff below and lack the adult's dark head, so they can be confused with young of other munias. Its species name, malacca, is a misnomer, since it does not occur on the Malay Peninsula. It has no subspecies (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is a small, gregarious bird of wet grassland that feeds mainly on grain and other seeds. Both sexes build a large, loosely woven oval nest with a porch of grass stems at the entrance, usually on reeds or in grass swamps about a metre above water and away from houses. The clutch is usually four or five white eggs, sometimes more; both parents incubate for about 12–13 days and share the nest at night (Wikipedia, general species account).