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20 and 2r5; tarsus 22. "Iris gre3-brown ; feet slaty grey; moxilla blackish: 

 mandible mostly jiale horn, flesh-colour at base." 



*3. Phylloscopus borealis (Bias.). 

 A large series shot in winter quarters. 



4. Cisticola cisticola (Temm.). 

 Three specimens. 



*5. Parus atriceps Horsf. 



Evidently common on the island, c?. '' Iris deep brown ; feet slaty blue; beak 

 black, pale at commissure." 



6. Dicaeum wilhelminae Buttik. 



1892. D. w., Biittikofer h\ Notes Let/ilcti Mas. XIV. p. 199. <? ad. "Iris 

 deep browQ ; feet black ; maxilla black ; mandible black, pale brown at base." Two 

 undoubted t)udes of this species. 



*7. ? Dicaeum mackloti Mull. & Schleg. 



There is & female from Sumba, like the female of D. mackloti, but of a paler 

 red on the ujiper tail-coverts. This ])aler red I And in ijoiiiuj birds of D. mackloti 

 only, while the bird before me is evidently an sAwltfemale ; bill black, except on base 

 of mandible. The red upper tail-coverts make it very improbable that it is the 

 vrnkwovm female oi D. wilhelminae. 



*8. Prionochilus obsoletus (Mtill. & Schleg.). 



One male from Sumba. " Eye pale ochraceous ; beak dark grey above, pale 

 bluish grey below." 



9. Anthreptes malaccensis celebensis (.Shell.). 



There is a series of specimens of this species from Sumba which I cannot 

 separate from Celebes skins, though they should rather be ^4. m. ddorogastei: 



10. Cinnyris blittikoferi sp. nov. 



cJ ad. Above greenish olive-grey ; ui'per wing-coverts, sides of head and neck, 

 like the back. Throat dark glossy purplish, metallic bluish green on the sides of 

 the throat and on the upjicr breast ; breast with an orange spot in the middle, just 

 below the bluish metallic colour ; rest of underjiarts yellow. Pectoral tufts bright 

 yellow. Under wing-coverts white. Tail black, with brownish tips, very narrow on 

 the central, very large on the lateral rectrices. Wing 54—56 mm. ; culmen 24 : 

 tail 3o ; tarsus 14. 



? ad. Like the male, but the under surface yellow, throat pale yellow, sides of 

 breast greenish olive. 



This new species, of which Doherty sent several males aad females, differs from 

 C. pectornlis in having a much longer bill, in being much less yellowish above, the 

 male having no metallic blue forehead, a paler abdomen, and a beautiful orange spot 



