8. AJTTHOTHKEPTES. 113 



Nectariuia liypogi'ammica, 'S'. 3Iull. Natuurl. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk, 



p. 173 (1843) ; MiUl. ^- Schl. op. cit. ZooL, Aves, p. 63, no. 14:, pi. 8. 



fag. 3 (1846); Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 98 (1847); Low, Sarawak, 



p. 410 (1848) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 225, no. 1364 



(1849). 

 Anthreptes nuchalis, Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 980 (1843, December); 



Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. ii. p. 300 (1877). 

 Nectarinia uuchalis. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 99 (1847). 

 Aiithreptes hypogramiuica, Bp. C. A. i. p. 409, no. 2 (1850) ; 



Horsf. >.y Moore, Cat. B. E.L Co. Mus. ii. p. 738, no. 1078 (1856-58); 



Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 461, no. 186; Briiffff. AbhancU. Ver. 



Bremen, v. p. 458 (1876) ; Ilume ^- Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 178 



(1878) ; Sharjje, Ibis, 1879, p. 260 ; Shcllei/, Monogr. Nect. p. 305, 



pL 98 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 9U ; Oates^B. Brit. Barm. i. p. 323. 

 Hj'pogramma uuchalis, Beichb. Handb. Scansorice, p. 314, no. 740, 



pi. 588. fig. 3992 (1854) ; Salvad. Ann. Mm. Civ. Genova, v. p. 172 



(1874) ; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 319 (1875). 

 Arachnothera hypogTaiuniica, Gray, HandA. B. i. p. 113, no. 1397 



(1>69). 

 AracliDechthra hypogrammica, Walden, H)is, 1870, p. 30. 

 Arachuechtkra macularia, Walden, Ibis, 1872, p. 381. 



Adult male. General colour above dark j-ello\vish olive ; a collar 

 on the hind neck, the lower back, and the upper tail-coverts me- 

 tallic piu'plish blue ; tail blackish brown, with white tips to the inner 

 webs ; inner webs of quills brown, edged with white ; outer webs 

 and wing-coverts like the back ; most of the feathers of the 

 underpaits with a broad dusky brown central streak, and broadly 

 edged with yellow and whitish ; flanks and under taU-coverts un- 

 striped, brownish olive : under wing-coverts yellowish white, ^o 

 pectoral tufts. Culmen 0"8 inch, wing 2-4— 2-5, tail 1-9, tarsus 

 0-65. 



Female. Like the male, but with the neck and the upper tail- 

 coverts imiform olive-yellowish instead of metallic blue. Wing 1*75 

 inch. 



Hah. From Southern Tenasserim down the Malayan Peninsula, 

 Sumatra, Borneo. 



a. (J ad. sk. Malacca. Purchased. 



b. cJ ad. sk. Malacca. India Museum. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Piuang {Dr. Cantor). India Museum. 



d. cJ ad. sk. [Java.] Purchased. 



e. (3' ad. sk. Sarawak (A. Everett). Goidd Collection. 

 /. cS ad. sk. N.W. Borneo. H. Low, Esq. [C.]. 

 ff. cJ ad. sk. Simunjon {A. Everett). Gould Collection, 



2. Anthothreptes fraseri. 



Anthreptes fi-aseri, Jard. ^- Selby, III. Orn. n. s. pi. 52 (1842) ; Bp. 



C. A. i. p. 409, no. 3 (1850) ; Haiil. J. f. O. 1854, p. 14 ; 



Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 37; Du'Chaillu, Equal. Afr. 



p. 472 (1861) ; Shelley, Monof/r. Xect. p. 307, pi. 99. 

 Xectariuia fraseri, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 99, no. 98 (1847) ; Hartl. Orn. 



W.-Afr. pp. 50, 271 (1857) ; id. J.f. 0. 1861, p. 109. 



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