90 NECTAKINIIDiE. 



Adult male. Like the typical C. JlammaxUlaris, -vsdth a strongly 

 pronoiinccd maroou collar and with a broad sooty black chest ; a 

 small part of the forehead metallic blue ; pectoral tufts large, gam- 

 boge-yellow ; lower breast, abdomen, and flanks pale yellow, washed 

 with cream-colour. Culmen 0-70 inch, wing 2-1, tail 1-4. 



Female. Whole throat, checks, and fore neck dull yellow ; rest of 

 underparts pale yellow and creamy. "NVing 1-9 inch. 



Immature males have no blue feathers on the forehead. 



Hah. Hainan. 



a. S ad. sk. Hainau, February 1868. Consul Swinhoe [C.]. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Hainan, March 18G8. Consul Swinhoe [C.I. 



c. (S ad. sk. Hainan, February 18G8 F. D. Godniau and 0. Sal- 



(SioitiJioe). vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



47. Cinnyris zenohia. 



? Tufted Creeper, Lath. Sipi. Suppl. p. 132, no. 57 (1787) ; id. Gen. 



Hist. B. iv. p. 251, no. 46 (1822). 

 ? Cei-thia cin-hata. Lath. Ind. Oni. i. p. 299, no. 62 (1790) ; Shaw, 



Gen. Zool. viii. p. 271 (1811). 

 PSoui-manga a touiies jauues, Aud. ct Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 65 



(1802). 

 ? Cinnyris cirrhatus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi. p. 495 (1819) ; 

 Bonn, ct Vieill. Enc. Mcth. ii. p. 599 (1823) ; Less. Man. cTOrn. ii. 

 p. 29 (1828). 

 Cinnyris zenobia. Less. Voy. Coq., Zool. i. p. 670, no. 104, pi. 30. 

 fig. 3 (1826) ; Bp. C. A. i. p. 409, no. 50 (1850) ; Bosenb. J.f. O. 

 1864, p. 193 (part.) ; Shelley, Monogr. Neet. p. 173, pi. 55. 

 Cinnn'is clementice, Less. Diet. Sc. Nat. i. p. 18 (1827) ; id. Man. 



d'Orn. ii. p. 40 (1828). 

 ? Nectarinia chrhata, Drapiez, Diet. Class, xv. p. 509 (1829). 

 Ts'ectarinia clenientiee, Drapiez, torn. cit. p. 510. 

 Nectarinia zenobia, Jard. Monogr. Sun-birds, p. 272 (1842) ; S. Miill. 

 &• Schl. Natuurl. Geseh., Zool. Aves, p. 60 (1846) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 

 p. 98 (1847) ; id. F. Z. S. 1858, p. 173, 1860, p. 348 (part.), 1861, 

 p. 433 (part.) ; Wallaee,P. Z. S. 1863, p. 32; Finsch, Neu- Guinea, 

 p. 163 (1865, part.). 

 Chalcostetha zenobia, Eeichb. Handb. Scansoriee, p. 286, no. 6(53, 



pi. 572. fig. 3900 (1854). 

 ? Nectarinia solans. Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 348. 

 Aracbuothera zenobia, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 110, no. 1361 (1869). 

 Aracliuechthra zenobia, Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 30. 

 Cyrtostomus zenobia, Sakad. Ann. Mas. Civ. Genova, viii. p. 379 

 (1876) ; id. Atti B. Ace. Torino, sii. p. 319 (1877); id. Orn, Papu- 

 asia, ii. p. 262. 

 Adult male. All the upper parts olive-yeUow, the j-ellow strongly 

 pronounced ; tail black, without or with scarcely any pale tips ; 

 fore neck metallic blue, purple in the centre, greenish towards the 

 sides ; pectoral tufts rich gamboge-yellow ; breast and all the rest 

 of the underparts, including the under wing-coverts and the edge 

 of the wing, black with a velvety blue gloss ; flanks sooty, or washed 

 with olive-brown ; inner web of quills with pale edges. Culmen 

 0-90 inch, wing 2-05-2-15, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-58 



