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NECTAEINTID.?!:. 



Adult male. Quills aud tail black, all the rest of the upper 

 parts metallic, perfectly black in position A, brilliant dark green 

 in E, and dark blue in position C ; sides of head aud ear-coverts 

 coppery purple ; along tlio sides of the neck a metallic purple band, 

 which does not extend over the cheeks ; the latter, as well as the 

 throat and fore neck, warm fawn-colour ; rest of uuderparts yellow 

 with a greenish tinge : edge of wing metallic green and blue ; under 

 wing-coverts white ; inner web of quills edged with white ; outer 

 web of secondaries often washed with dark blue ; tail edged with the 

 metallic colour of the back; feet greenish. Culmen 0-55-0-6 inch, 

 wingl-95-2-15, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-()5. 



Female. Dull olive-green above ; tail and wings dusky brown, 

 strongly washed with olive-yellow ; throat and fore neck fawn-colour ; 

 rest of the underparts of the body greenish yeUow ; under wing- 

 coverts white. 



Hah. From Bootan to Malacca and over the Sunda Islands. 



a. 5 ad. sk. 

 h. S ad. sk. 



c. S jnv. sk. 



d. 2 ad. sk. 



e. S ad. sk. 



/, g. S9- -id. St. 

 h, i. c? 2 ad. ; 



k. S iinra. sk. 

 /,m.c? ad.etjuv.sk. 

 n, 0. S ad. sk. 

 Ih <l- d 2 ad. sk. 



r. c? ad. sk. 

 s. (S ad. sk. 



^. [ 2 ] ad. sk. 

 u, V. S iium- sk. 

 w, .V. S 2 ad. sk. 



y. 2 ad. sk. 

 z. cj ad. sk. 



Khasia hills (Jerdon). 

 Eangoon, Oct. 4, 1874. 

 Pegu, Nov. 20, 1877. 

 Lower Pegu, Dec. 30, 



1878. _ 

 Tenasserim. 

 Malacca. 

 Malacca (Dr. Cantor). 



Malacca. 

 Malacca. 



Malacca. 



Sumatra. 



E. Java. 



W. Java (Buxton). 



Labuan (Loiv). 



Borneo. 



Banjermassing. 

 Sarawak. 



Gould Collection. 

 E. W. Gates, Esq. 

 E. W. Gates, Esq. 

 E. W. Gates, Esq. 



_C.]. 



to.j. 



J.C.D. Packman, Esq. [P.]. 



Purchased. 



India Museum. 



A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 W. Harvey, Esq. [P.]. 

 Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 

 E. ^- 



A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 

 F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 



E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



F. D. Godman and G. Sal- 

 vin, Esqrs. [P.]- 



J. Motley, Esq. [0.]. 



A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



11. Anthothreptes malaccensis. 



Le Grimpereau de Malacca, Sonn. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 209, pi. 116. fig. 1 



(1782). 

 Certhia malaccensis. Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 91 (1786, 



e.v Sonnerat). 

 Yellow-bellied Creeper, Lnth. Gen. Syn. Suppl. p. 1.31 (1787) ; id. 



Gen. Hist. Ii. iv. p. 229 (1822). 

 Certhia lepida. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 298 (1790) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. 



^n\. p. 213 (1811). 

 Le Soui-manga de Malacca, Aud. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 63 (1802). 

 Nectarinia javanica, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 167 (1820) ; Motl. 



Sf Dillw. Ctmtr. Nat. Hist. Labuan, p. 15 (1855). 

 Certhia javanica, Raffl. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 299 (1822). 

 Javan Creeper, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. iv. p. 265 (1822). 

 Cinnyris javauicus. Swains. Zool. III. iii. p. 121 (1822-23) ; Vig. Mem. 



Raffl. p. 673 (1830) ; Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 101. 



