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BULLETIN 98, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female, No. 170979, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Skntan, September 6, 

 1899. "Feet black." 



Adult female, No. 171056, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Manguan, August 31 or 

 September 1, 1899. "Bill black, brownish beneath at base; feet 

 black." 



Juvenal female, No. 171097, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Jimaja, September 18, 

 1899. 



The two adult males are identical except for the more golden shade 

 of the metallic green crown, the more violet throat, lower back, and 

 rump, and the lighter shade of red on the breast and upper abdomen 

 in the type; but these differences are of course merely individual. 

 These males are in molt about two-thirds to three-fourths com- 

 pleted. The immature male (No. 170975, U.S.N.M.) is still almost 

 half in the olive green and olive yellow ju venal plumage, which 

 closely resembles the adult female, though darker and duller above. 

 This bird is in process of molt, and the posterior upper and lower 

 parts and tail are wholly, the breast, upper back, and wings partly, 

 in the adult plumage. 



The two adult females (Nos. 170979 and 171056, U.S.N.M.) are in 

 nearly completed molt. The immature female (No. 171097, 

 U.S.N.M., taken, September 19, 1899) is very much like the adult 

 female, but is considerably darker above, and on the breast has 

 obscure narrow dusky bars. It apparently has not yet begun to 

 molt into the adult plumage. 



Doctor Abbott reported this sun-bird common at Telok Ayer Bini, 

 on Pulo Siantan, September 5-6, 1899; and on Pulo Jimaja, Sep- 

 tember 17-28, 1899. 



Measurements of the four adults am us follows: 



Measurements of specimens of Cinnyris brasiliana eumecis. 



1 Measured in the flesh by the collector. 



J Type. 



