64 NECXAEIXIID.E. 



Adult mule. In position B crown and nape rich metallic coppery 

 green ; lower back, upper tail-coverts, and ulnar coverts dark pur- 

 })lisli green, throat and tore neck rich purplish blue ; in position C these 

 parts changing into brilliant dark green and into purplish red respec- 

 tively. Ocular region and ear-coverts black ; tail blue-black with 

 a semi-metallic gloss ; sides of neck and hind neck, mantle, scapulars, 

 and median coverts dark blood-red ; quills and most of the coverts 

 brownish black, externally edged with the colour of the back ; edge 

 of wing and under wing-coverts sooty black ; upper breast rich 

 carmine-red ; abdomen and Hanks dusky yellowish olive, the thighs 

 and uuder tail-coverts inclining to yellow. Culmen Owo-O-S inch, 

 wiug 2- 1-2-2, tail 1-2, tarsus U-55. 



Female. Upper parts yellowish olive, inclining to greenish on 

 the crown ; sides of head and ear-coverts grey ; a superciliary 

 streak, cheeks, and throat white ; rest of underparts yellow ; wings 

 and wing-coverts externally edged with reddish brown. 



Ilab. Philippine Islands. 



a,b. S ai.sk. Philippines. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



c. cf ad. sk. Philippines. Purchased. 



d. (S ad. sk. Guimaras. Prof. Steere [C.]. 



e. S ad. sk. Manila. J. Gould, Esq. 



f. c? ad. sk. Manila. Gould Collection. 



21. Cinnyris juliaB. 



Nectarophila jidiiB, Ticeeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 53-5, 547 ; 1878, 



p. 951. 

 Cinnyris julise, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 135, pi. 44. 



Like C. sperata, but with the breast yellow instead of red ; the 

 whole breast gamboge-yellow, with a few feathers along the centre 

 washed with red ; abdomen and flanks white ; rest of underparts 

 pale olive-yellow ; inner web of quills with faintly white edges. 



The female resembles that of C. spcrata. 



Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



in. in. in. in. 



S .... 0-65-0-70 2-0 1-15 055 



2 0-6o 1-9 1-10 0-52 



Hah. Islands of Malanipa and Mindanao, Philippine archipelago. 

 Ohs. The scarlet on the breast may be altogether absent, as is 

 shown by some specimens. 



« 6. c? ; c. 2 ad. sk. Malanipa. ' Challenger ' Expedition. 



(Types of species.) 



22. Cinnyris zeylonica. 



Certhia zevlonica, Linn. S. X. i. p. 18s, no. 23, " Ceylon" (176(3) ; 



Gm. S. X. i. p. 482, no. 23 (1788) ; Lath. Ltd. Orn. i. p. 285, no. 13 



(1790). 

 Cevlonese Creeper, Lath. Gen. Si/7i. ii. p. 712, no., 13 (1781); id. 



Gen. Hist. B. iv. p. 227, no. 16 (1822). 



