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the larger end, a few fine hair-like scribblings crossing the shell trans- 

 versely. Measurements 17 mm. by 13 mm." 



Another set of two eggs, collected by Whitehead in ISTegros, April 15, 

 1896, are described as having the "Ground-color as in the above, but the 

 shell heavily clouded with rich dark terra-cotta and darker scribblings 

 and specks of the same color. Measurements 16 mm. by 12 mm." 



*'This sunbird nests in old forest. The nest is generally found sus- 

 pended among forest debris in the vicinity of some huge tree-trunks only 

 a few feet from the ground. It is well hidden by the undergrowth. 



"The nest is a well-woven bag-shaped structure, with a roofed entrance 

 at the side. It is principally constructed of fine grass, rootlets, palm 

 fiber, and fragments of dead leaves woven together with spiders' webs 

 and lined with fine dead grass tops and seeds. The nest found by 

 Professor Steere was suspended from a root under the overhanging bank 

 of a river^ and looked like a tuft of rubbish left by high water." ( Grant 

 and Whitehead.) 



654. /ETHOPYGA BOLTON I Mearns. 



BOLTON'S SUNBIED. 



^thopyga holtoni Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 4; McGregob 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 98; Grant, Ibis (1906), 472. 



Kah-poi-yah-poi-yuh, or kah-pue-yoo-ahn, Bagobo of Mount Apo. 

 Mindanao {Mearns, Goodfellow) . 



"Adult male. — Entire head and neck all round, except middle of 

 chin and throat, slate-gi'ay, faintly washed with french-green, the feathers 

 of the forehead narrowly edged with metallic french-green; upper back 

 gray, strongly washed with oil-green; lower back olive-green; rump 

 citron-yellow; wings brownish black with wing-coverts and outer webs 

 of secondaries olive-green; under wing-coverts and edges of inner webs 

 of primaries and secondaries white; tail with longest feather 13 mm. 

 longer than the next, 25 mm. longer than the outer rectrix; middle pair 

 of tail-feathers entirely metallic french-green, the remaining rectrices 

 being green-black, broadly tipped with gray on the outer and white on 

 the inner webs; under parts with a median stripe of citron-yellow ex- 

 tending from bill to chest, broadening posteriorly and minutely mixed 

 with orpiment-orange at upper margin of chest; flanks, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts yellow; chest orange; pectoral tufts chinese-orange. 

 Iris red; bill black faintly tipped with horn-color; feet and claws black, 

 except the under side of toes which are yellowish. Length, 130; alar 

 expanse, 180; wing, 57; tail, 55; culmen (chord), 21; tarsus, 18; middle 

 toe with claw, 14. 



"Adult female. — Head, neck all round, and chest slate-gray; upper 

 parts, including upper wing-coverts and exposed outer webs of wing- 

 quills, olive-yellow; tail similar to that of male, but shorter and duller, 



