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6. Hermotimia aspasioides, G. R. Gr. 



Nectarinia aspasioides, G. R. Gr., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1860, p. 348, Aniboyna. 



Hermotimia aspasioides, Salvad., Atti R. Ac. Sc. Tor., vol. x. pp. 208, 216, 1874 ; vol. xii. p. 



306, 1877 ; Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 81. 

 Cinnyris aspasioides, Shelley, Mori. Cinnyr., part 5. 1877. 



[No. 314. Male. Eyes black. 312, female. Eyes black. Stomach had insects.] 

 Two specimens — one "male" (No. 314) not fully adult, with the green cap mixed 

 with blue, and one "female" (No. 312). 



7. Dicceum vulneratum, Wall. 



Dicceum vulneratum, Wall., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1863, p. 32, note (Ceram, type examined); 

 Salvad., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 82. 



[No. 315. Female. Eyes brown ; stomach had insects and seeds. Small bird.] 



This sex has not yet been described. 



Fern. Superne cinereo-fusca, alis et cauda obscurioribus, paullum nitentibus ; pileo 

 prsesertim frontem versus brunneo tincto ; supracaudalibus rubris ; inferne cinerea ; 

 gastrseo medio seu gula, colli antici, pectoris abdominisque parte media cum subcaudalibus 

 albis ; rostro et pedibus fuscis. 



8. Budytes viridis, Gm. 



Budytes viridis, Gm. : Salvad., Proc Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 82. 



[No. 305. Male. Eyes brown; legs and bill black. Stomach had insects. 310, 

 female; eyes brown. 313, male; eyes brown. Stomach had insects.] 



Three specimens — one "male" (No. 305), and one "female" (No. 310), scarcely 

 different; and one "male" (No. 319) with the under parts of a paler yellow, and with 

 the back rather greyish. 



9. Macropygia amboinensis, Linn. 



Macropygia amboinensis, Linn. : Salvad., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 82. 



[No. 301. Male. Eyes red; feet red; bill black; fruit in stomach. 320, female. 

 Eyes orange ; stomach had seeds ; legs red.] 



Two specimens — one fully adult "male" (No. 301), and one "female" (No. 320). 

 The female has the cap of a uniform cinnamon colour, the breast more reddish than the 

 male, and no green or purplish reflections on the nape, which is finely mottled with dark 

 brown and reddish fulvous. 



10. Charddrius fulvus, Gm. 



Charadrvus fulvus, Gm. : Salvad., Proc Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 82. 

 [No. 317. Male. Eyes hazel. Stomach contained worms and land shells. | 



