110 NECTABINIIDa. 



Oulmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, 



in. in. in. in. 



Type specimen I'G 4-2 2-1 0-9 



cj ad. Malacca 1-56 4-4 2-2 0'91 



c5" ad. Malacca 1-45 3-8 1-8 0-81 



Ad. Malacca 1-7 4-5 2-2 0-00 



Hab. Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



«.[£?] ad. sk. Malacca. T. C. Eyton, Esq. 



(Type of A.Jlaviffaster, Eyton.) 



b, c, d. Ad. sk. Malacca {Cantor). India Museum. 



f,/. Ad. sk. Malacca. India Museum. 



ff,h.Ad.sk, Malacca. W. Harvey, Esq. [P.]. 



V. d" ad. sk. Malacca. A. R. WaUace, Esq. [C.]. 



k. c? ad. sk. Malacca (A. R. WaUace). Gould Collection. 



9. Arachnothera novae gumeae. 



Cinnyris novse guinese, Less. Voy. Coq., Zool. i. p. 677 (1828); id. 

 Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 44. 



Arachnothera novfe gaineae, S. Miiller ef Schley. Natuurl. Gesch. Zool. 

 p. 70, pi. 9. fig. 3 (18.39-44) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 99 ; Bp. C. A. 

 i. p. 410 ; Sclat. Journ. Linn. Sac. ii. p. 157 ; Gray, Cat. B. 

 Neiv Gain. p. 22; id. P. Z. S. 18-58, p. 173, 1861, p. 434: Rosen- 

 berg, Nat. njdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxv. p. 237 ; id. J. f. O. 1864, 

 p. 123 ; id. Malay. Archip. p. 364 ; Bernstein, J. f. 0. 1864, p. 405 ; 

 Finsch, Xeu-Guinea, p. 162. 



Ai-achnoraphis novse guinese, Reichenb. Handb. spec. Orn. p. 314, 

 fig. 4030 (1853) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. Ill, no. 1371. 



Melilestes novse guinese, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 951 

 (1875) ; id. Orn. Papuas. e Molucche, ii. p. 315. 



Adult male and female. Upper parts uniform olive-green ; inner 

 web of quills and the tail dusky brown ; ocular region pale yel- 

 lowish ; aU the underparts vivid yeUow with a greenish tinge ; 

 sides of head olive-grey; under wing-coverts and inner edge of 

 quills white, the former slightly tinged with yeUow ; under tail- 

 coverts whitish yellow. The feathers of the back are fluffy and long ; 

 no pectoral tufts ; culminal ridge strong. 



cJ . Culmen 1-2 inch, wing 2-5-2-7, tail 1'7, tarsus 0-65, 

 ?. „ 1-0 „ „ 2-3, „ 1-3, „ 0-60. 



Hah. Papuasia. 



a Ad. sk New Guinea. F. D. Godman and 0. Salvia, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 b. Ad. sk. New Guinea. A. Pi. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c,d. (S ; e. 2 Waigiou. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [0.]. 



ad. sk. 

 /. 2 ad. sk. Waigiou {Wallace). Gould CoUectiou. 



c? ad. sk. Mysol. A. R. Wallace, Esq 



"h. 6 ; hf^- 2 -^u Islands. A. R. WaUace, Esq. 



■ [C.]. 



• [c.]. 



