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Russ's Isis, both places not easily ac-cessible to au ornithologist ; and the female has 

 never been described, as far as I know. I therefore append a short description of 

 both sexes : — 



d ad. Top of the iiead and forehead, feathers of the rump (somewliat elongated), 

 and a small spot on the upper breast scarlet ; hindneck aud reniiges black ; back, 

 scapulars, and ui)per wing-coverts deep steel-blue ; ear-coverts, chin, throat, aud sides 

 of body ashy, darker on the latter ; axillaries, tufts under the wing, under wing-coverts, 

 under tail-coverts, and abdomen white, a blackish stripe along the middle of the 

 abdomen. 



Total length about 80 mm. ; wing 49 — jl mm. ; tail about :i(i nun, ; culmen 

 9—10 mm. 



"Iris brown ; bill, feet, and claws black " (A. Everett). 



? ad. (breeding). Ujjperside dark ashy grey, crown washed with rufous brown, 

 rump light scarlet ; wings and tail blackish. Underside whitish ; sides of head and 

 neck, sides of body, and an (often irregular) line along the middle of the abdomi-n 

 ashy ; a.xillaries, under wing- and under tail-coverts white. 



"Iris brown; bill black; base of mandible paler; feet bluish grey; claws lilackish." 



The immature i7mle resembles thefe^nale, but seems to be darker abo\c, aud has 

 no scarlet on the rump in very early age. 



This pretty bird was not rare near Indrulaman, 2000 to oOOO fei4, and was also 

 met with on the Bonthain Peak at heights of 5000 to 6500 feet. 



13. Cinnyris frenata dissentiens subsp. no v. 



An adult pair in good fresh plumage from Indrulaman (October 1895) are 

 evidently most nearly related to C. frenata plateni Bias., the form of this sunbird 

 which inhabits many parts of Celebes, and which is veri/ closely allied to U. frenata 

 typica. The new form is less greenish and very much darker above, where it is of a 

 dark olive colour, and the abdomen is much paler yellow. The colour of the throat 

 of the male is also of a different shade, but this is liable to individual variation. 



Besides these two skins we have received five from Saleyer, which I must refer 

 to this same form. The abdomen of all these Saleyer specimens is paler sulphur- 

 yellow, and the under tail-coverts whiter ; but the specimens are not quite alike, and 

 none of them is in such fresh plumage. They are also slightly paler and more grevisli 

 above (but not greenish, like C. frenata typica), but I am inclined to ascrilie these 

 differences to the more worn plumage. 



14. Cinnyris porphyrolaema (Wall.). 



This rather di-stinct Celebes species was procured at lUilekomba and Makassar. 

 A young male from the latter place (September) is in full moult, the dark black and 

 metallic feathers appearing here and there in the dull plumage, chieHy so on the 

 wings and flanks. Another male, in full plumage, has the first primaries not yet full 

 grown. 



S. " Iris brown; bill glossy black ; legs dull black ; claws blackish." 



15. Aethopyg'a flavostriata (Wall.). 



One r/irt/c from Indrulaman, i|uile similar (o a .-kin lV(jiii .Noilh Celebes in the 

 Tring Museum, but bill (and wing?) rather .shorter; culmen IS nnn.; wing damaged, 

 but apparently a little shorter. 



