7. AEACHNOTHERA. 103 



patches : the fluffy feathers of the lower back dull yellow. Total 

 length about 5 inches (excluding bill). 



Oulmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



in. in in in 



Ad. cJ fi'om Sumati-a ( Wallace) 1-15 



Ad. (5 (type of A. te.mminckii, Moore) . 1'40 

 Ad. $ . l-4o 



Hah. Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



a, h. c? ad. sk. Indian archipelago {Middle- India Museum. (Types of 



ton). A. temminckii, Horsf.) 



c. cJ ad. sk. Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



3. Arachnotliera longirostris. 



Long-biUed Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 133 (1787) ; id. 



Gen. Hist. iv. p. 251 (1822). 

 Uerthia longirostra, Lath. Ind. Om. i. p. 299 (1790) : Shaw, Gen, 



Zool. viii. ^. 270 (1811). 

 Soui-manga a long bee, Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. Bor. ii. p. 65 (1802) 



Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. pp. .32, 56 (1828). 

 Cinnyris cinereicollis, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi. p. .502 (1819) 



Bmui. et Vieill. Em. Meih. ii. p. 591 (1823). 

 Cinnyi'is longirostris, Vieill. N. Diet, d'llist. Nat. xxxi. p. 504 (1819) 



Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 167 (1820) : Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. 



Meth. ii. p. 591 (1823). 

 Cinnyris longirosti-atus, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 32 (1828). 

 Nectarinia longu-ostra, Temm. PI. Col. 84. %. 1 (1823). 

 Arachnothera longirostra, Tcmm. PI. Col. pi. 388, text (1826) ; Less. 



Man. cFOrn. ii. p. 32 (1828) ; id. Traite d'Om. i. p. 292 (1831) ; 



Miill. 4- Schleff. Natuurl. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. pp. 69, 71 



(1846) ; Lotc, Saraxuak, p. 410 (1748) ; Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 



pp. 222, 347 (1849) ; Bj). C. A. i. p. 409 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 



Gen. T. p. 186 (1874) ; Tiveeddale, Ibis, 1877, p. 300; Briiygem 



Abhandl. nal . Ver. Bremen, v. p. 458 (1877) : Hume 8) Davison 



Str. F. vi. pp. 174, 507 (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. vii. p. .35 (1878) , 



Salvad. Ann. 31us. Civ. Genova, xiv. p. 214 (1879); Shelley, Monogr. 



Neat. p. .357, pi. 114; Hume ^- Davis. Str. i^. 1878, p. -330; Hume, 



Str. F. 1879, p. 330 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 330. 

 Arachnothera inornata, Blyth (nee Temtn.), J. A. S. B. xii. p. 982 



(1843). ^ 



Arachnothera longirostiis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 982, xv. p. 43 



(1846): Schl. Handl. Dierk. p. 237 (1857); Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 99 ; Peheln, Novar. Reise, Vog. pp. .52, 161 (1865). 

 Ai-achnothera affinis, Blyth (nee Horsf. ), J. A. S. B. xv. p. 43 (1846) ; 



Horsf c^- Moore, Cat'. B. E.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 730 (1846) ; Jerd. B. 



Ind.'i. p. 361 (1862); Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 364: Httme, Str. F. 



1874, p. 473, 1875, p. 85; Bh/th i,- Walden, Cat. Mamm. 8,- Birds 



Burma, p. 140 (1875) ; Blanford, Ibis, 1870, p. 467. 

 Arachnothera pusilla, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 222 (1849). 

 Arachnothera lousrirostris, Eeichenb. Handb. Scansor. p. 316, pi. 592. 



tigs. 4018-19(1854). 

 Arachnothera ? Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 70 (1874) 



Adult male. General colour above and sides of the head and neck 

 olive, with a brownish tinge; feathers of the crown with dark 



