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centres ; tail blackish brown with whitish tips ; quills brown, the 

 inner web edged with whitish ; chin, throat, edge of wing, and under 

 wing-coverts Avhite ; rest of underparts sulphur-yellow; on each 

 side of the breast a few chrome-yellow feathers ; " maxilla black ; 

 mandible and legs leaden grey ; iris dark brown." Total length 

 4 inches (excluding bill). 



The female has no chrome-coloured patches on the breast, and is 

 smaller in size. 



Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, 

 in. in. in. in. 



Ad. cf. Labuan 1-7 2-75 17 07 



Ad. cf . W. Java 1-85 2-6o 175 0-06 



Ad. $ . Pegu 1-40 2-30 1-50 0'60 



Ad. ?. Sumatra 1-32 245 1-60 0-60 



The bill in this species is very long and slender, and in most 

 species forms a ridge at the culmen ; in others, however, a ridge is 

 scarcely developed. 



Hah. Found, according to Shelley, on the Malabar coast and the 

 Neilgherries, Bengal, and round the Eay of Bengal, in the Malayan 

 peninsula, in the Andaman Islands, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and 

 Celebes. 



a. S ad. sk. Bridge, Travancore, F. W. Bourdillon, Esq. 



April 5, 1879. [C.]. 



h. S \viv. sk. Mynall, Travancore, Feb. F. W. Bourdillon, Esq. 



9, 1880, 2G00 feet. [C.l. 



e. 5 ad. sk. Arracan. India Museum. 



d. Ad. sk. Bassein, Pegu. _ W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Zeinganein, Pegu, April E. "W. Gates, Esq. [C.]. 



1876 



/. S ad. sk. Tenasserim {Heifer). India Museum. 



g,h. c? 5 ad.sk. Malacca (G^rj^^^A). India Museum. 



i. (S ad. sk. Malacca. A. R. AVallace, Esq. [C.]. 



k,l,m. (5 5 ad. sk. Singapore. Gould Collection. 



w. 2 ad. sk. Sumatra. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



o. J ad. sk. West Sumatra. Dr. Faber [C.]. 



p. c? ad. sk. VV. Java (Su.vton). F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 



q. S ad. sk. W. Java. A. R. "Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



r. S ad. sk. Java. Gould Collection. 



s. S ad. sk. Java. Purchased. 



<. [5]ad. St. Borneo. Rajah Brooke [P.]. 



u. [_ (^ J ad. st. Borneo. Purchased. 



V. S ad. sk. Borneo. Pm-chased. 



w,x. S 2 ad. sk. N.W\ Borneo. H. Low, Esq. [C.]. 



y. (S ad. sk. Labuan {Loic). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



z. $ ad. sk. Sarawak. H. Everett, Esq. [P.]. 



a'. cS ad. sk. Simmijon, Borneo (A. F. D. Godman and O. Sal- 



Erefett). viu, Esqrs. [P.]. 



Subsp. a. Arachnothera flammifera. 



Arachnothera flammifera, Ticeeddale, P. Z. .S'. 1878, p. 343; Shelley, 

 Monoyr. Nect. p. 3^)1, pi. 115. 



A. fMmmifera, which is most probably nothing but a brighter- 



