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8. Prionochilus sanghirensis. 



Prionochilus sanghirensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus, Civic. Genov. ix. p. 59 

 (1879). 



Adult male. Above olive-yellowish ; wings and tail dusky, whitish 

 underneath ; throat pure white ; the breast and middle of abdomen 

 greyish ; sides of breast bright yellow ; the sides of the abdomen 

 whitish grey, slightly tinged with yellow ; under tail-coverts pale 

 yellow ; bill and feet dusky black. Total length 3-4 inches, bill 0*3, 

 wing 2, tail 1-05, tarsus 0-5. {Salvador i.) 



Young. Similar to the adult, but with a smaller yellow spot on 

 both sides of the breast. {Id. I. c.) 



Hah. Sanghir Islands. 



9. Prionochilus melanoxanthus. 



Micrura melanoxantha, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 



pi. 38 (no. 488). 

 Pacliyglossa melanoxantha, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. xii. pt. 2, p. 1009 



(1843) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844) ; Gray, Cat. Mamni. 



etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 60 (1846); Bp. Consp. I p. 402 (1850) 



Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 377 (1862) ; Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 455 



Godwin-Aust. J. A. S. Beng. xliii. pt. 2, p. 156 (1874) : Hume, 



Str. F. 1379, p. 90. 

 Dicseum melanoxanthum. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 100 (1847); id. Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 115, no. 1437 (1869). 

 Prionochilus melanoxanthus, Sclater, Ibis, 1874, p. 3, pi. 1. fig. 3. 



Adidt male. General colour above dark slaty blackish with a 

 slight gloss ; least wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater 

 coverts and quills blackish brown, slightly edged with slate-colour 

 externally ; tail-feathers black, the two outermost with a large 

 spot of white near the end of the inner web ; lores, sides of face, 

 ear-coverts, cheeks, sides of neck, and sides of throat black, with a 

 slaty-grey gloss, this slaty-black colour extending down the sides of 

 the breast ; throat and fore neck white, forming a longitudinal 

 patch ; chest and remainder of under surface of body yellow, 

 including the flanks and under tail-coverts ; thighs white tinged 

 with yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, mottled with 

 black bases near the edge of the wing ; quills blackish below, 

 whitish along the edge of the inner web ; " bill black : legs dark 

 plumbeous: iris red" {Godwin-Austen). Total length 4-8 inches, 

 culmen 0'4, wing 2'8.5, tail 1-5, tarsus 0*55. 



Adult female. The entire upper surface a very dusky olive-green, 

 slightly clearer on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wings and tail 

 hair-brown, darkest on quills and tail ; most of the larger and 

 median coverts, secondaries, and tertiaries very narrowly and in- 

 conspicuously margined on the outer webs with yellowish oHve ; 

 two outer tail-feathers on either side with a white patch ou the 

 inner webs near the tips ; lores dusky ; a broad irregular stripe 

 covering the chin, middle of throat, and middle of breast duU, slightly 

 yellowish or fulvous white ; sides of throat, cheeks, ear-coverts, and 



