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coloured and smaller race of A. lonr/irostris, rests on a single speci- 

 men only, an old male, collected by Mr. Everett in the island of 

 Leyte, in September 1877. 



It differs from A. lonr/irostris in having the throat and sides of 

 the neck more tinged with pale grey, whilst the centre of the upper 

 breast is white instead of yellow. The pectoral tufts and the 

 rest of the underparts are richly coloured, orange and yellow, as 

 becomes an old male in its best plumage. Total length 4 inches 

 (excluding bill), culmen 1-15, wing 2-4, tail 1"75, tarsus 0'6 {Shelley). 



4. Aradmothera dilutior. 



Arachnothera dilutior, Sharpe, Nature, 3rd August 1876, p. 296 ; 

 id. Trans. Linn. Son. new ser. Zool. i. p. .341 ; Tzceedd. I*. Z. S. 



1878, p. 621 ; S/iellei/, Monogr. Ned. p. 363, pi. 116. 



This species is closely allied io A. longirostris, "■ hova which it 

 differs in having the breast white, only shghtly shaded with pale 

 olive-3'ellow on the sides of the bod}', and in the crown being brown 

 with no olive shade ; throat faintly shaded with ashy brown ; pec- 

 toral tufts bright chrome-yellow. Culmen 1-5 inch, wing 2-7, tail 1'9, 

 tarsus 0-75." {Shelley.) 



Hah. The only specimen known was collected by Dr, Steere in 

 the island of Palawan (Philippines). 



5. Arachnotliera magna. 



Cinnyris magna, Hodgs. Ind. JRev. 1837, p. 272. 



Arachnothera inornata, Horsf. (nee Temm.), P. Z. S. 1839, p. 167. 



Arachnothera macrna, Blyth,' J. A. S. B. 1843, p. 981, 1846, p. 43 ; 

 Gray, Gen. B. \. p. 99 (1847) ; Blytk, Cat. B. Mus. As. Sac. p. 221 

 (1849) ; Bp. C. A. i. p. 410 : Cab. Mus. Ilein. i. p. 106 ; Riichenh. 

 Handb. Scansor. p. 316, pi. 593. fig. 4023 (1854) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, 

 Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 727 (1856) ; Jerdon, B. Ind. i. p. 360 

 (1862) ; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 98 (1870) ; Hu7ne, 

 Sir. F. 1874, p. 473, 1875, p. 85 ; Blyth S,- Walden, Cat. '3Iamm. Sf 

 Birds Burma, p. 140 (1875) ; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. .347 ; Shelley, 

 Monogr. Nect. p. 347, pi. 1 12. fig. 1 ; Gammie, Str. F. v. p. 385 

 (1877') ; Hume i,- Hams. Sfr. F. 1878, pp. 173, 507 ; Hume, Str. F. 



1879, y.. 89 ; Gates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 327. 



Arachnot.'iera chrysopus, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844) ; 

 id. J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 575 (1855). 



Southern Race (A. aurata). 



Arachnothera aurata, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 478 (1855) ; id. 

 Ibis, 1870, p. I(i4 : Ehces, P. Z. S. 1873. p. 661 ; Hume, Sfr. F. 

 1875, pp. 15, 85; Blyth ^- Walden, Cat. Mamm. ^- Birds Burma, 

 p. 410 (1875) ; Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 351, pi. 112. fig. 2 ; Hume 

 Sf Davis. Str. F. 1878, p. 174; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 89; Oate», 

 B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 328. 



Arachnothera magna, Walden {nee Hodgson), P. Z. S. 1866, p. 540 ; 

 Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 418. 



General colour above greenish yellow, each feather ^vith a blackish- 

 brown central streak ; tail greenish yellow, with an irregular 



