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NECTAEINIID^. 



coverts and carpal coverts, lower back, and npper tail-coverts dark 

 metallic purplish red. In position C the fore neck has a strong 

 coppery p;loss. Whole breast dark blood-red ; no pectoral tufts ; 

 tail blue-black ; abdomen sometimes tinged with brownish, whilst 

 the undorpiirts are j^enerally velvety black, including the sides of 

 the head and neck, under wing-coverts, and inner webs of (juills. 

 Culmeu 0-()5 inch, wing l-S-l-'J, tail 1-1, tarsus 0-50. 



FomtJe. Above olive-brown with a greyish tinge; wings brown 

 with wliite inner edges to the quills ; tail blackish brown, striped 

 with white ; sides of head and all the underparts silky whitish ; 

 breast and under tail-coverts washed with pale yellow. Wing 

 1'75 inch. 



ffab. Suuda Islands, extending northwards through the Malayan 

 peninsula as far as Tipperah. 



India Museum. 



E. W. Gates, Esq. [C], 



E. W. Gates, Esq. [C.]. 



J. 0. D. Packman, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. Harvey, Esq. [P.]. 

 Capt. Stackhouse Pin will 



[P.]. 

 India Museum. 

 A. R.Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 India Museum [P.l. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Gould Collection. 



A. R.Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



A. R.Wallace, Esq. 



FOUETH GROUP (Hcrmotlmia). 



Whole bird black in position A. The crown, shoulders (ulnar and 

 carpal coverts), lower back, upper tail-coverts, outer edge of some of 

 the tail-feathers, chin, and throat are metallic. Rest of plumage 

 black. No pectoral tufts. 



25. Cinnyris aspasias. 

 C. aspasice typica. 



Cinnyris aspasia, Less. Toy. Coq., Zool. i, p. 676, pi. 30. fig. 4 (1826) ; 

 id. Traited'Orn. i. p. 295 (1831); id. Compl. Bvff., Ois. p. 590 

 (1838); Bp. C. A. i. p. 409 (1850); Be)-nsfein, J. f. O. 1859, 

 p. 279 ; JRosetiberg, J.f. O. 1864, p. 123 ; Ramsay, Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 Netv S. Wales, i'ii. p. 288 (1878) ; S/ielley, Monogr. Nect. p. 113, 

 pi. 37. fig. 2. 



Cinnyris sericeus, Z^'ss. Diet. So. Nat. i. p. 21 (1827) ; id. Man. d'Orn. 

 ii. p. 43(1828). 



