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43; tail, 29; culmen, 16; tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 13. Cala- 

 mianes birds are very slightly smaller, but are otherwise identical. Shot 

 at a height of 760 meters on Mount Pulgar in Palawan, where it was 

 abundant." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



G56. /ETHOPYGA BELLA Tweeddale. 



TWEEDDALE'S SUNBIRD. 



.^thopyga bella Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 537: 

 Shelley, Monogr. Nectarin. (1879), pts. 9 & 10, 77, pi. 25; Gadow, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 29; Grant, Ibis (1897), 236; Gbant and 

 Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 242 (eggs); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 229 

 (nest) ; McGregoe and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 98. 



Mindanao (Everett, Celestino) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Whitehead) . 



"Male. — Chin, throat, breast, and uropygium bright sulphur-yellow; 

 forehead, vertex, minor carpal coverts, upper tail-coverts, and upper 

 surface of rectrices dark metallic gi'een; occiput, nape, and wing-coverts 

 dark olive; cheeks, lores, behind the eye, sides of head and neck, inter- 

 scapulars, and back deep blood-red; quills almost black, margined with 

 dark olive; abdomen, flanks, vent, under tail-coverts, and under wing- 

 coverts silky white, more or less tinged with pale yellow, especially on 

 the mesial line, under tail-coverts, and carpal edge; a few blood-red 

 feathers on the upper breast; a metallic violet spot on side of head; a 

 narrow line of deep blood-red runs along the rami of the mandible; a 

 bold metallic moustache springs from the base of the mandible, and 

 descends the sides of the neck; tlie upper half violet, the lower half 

 green. Wing, 42.6; tail, 36.5; culmen, 13; tarsus, 13. 



"Female. — Above, wing-coverts, and edgings to quills olive-green; 

 uropygium bright sulphur-yellow as in the male; space before the eye, 

 cheeks, ear-coverts, chin, throat, and upper breast gray, tinged with 

 yellowish olive-green; lower breast, abdomen, flanks, and under tail- 

 coverts white tinged with yellow ; under wing-coverts white faintly tinged 

 with yellow ; quills and rectrices dark brown margined with olive ; lateral 

 rectrices tipped with albescent olive. Wing, 41; tail, 28; culmen, 13: 

 tarsus, 13." (Tweeddale.) 



Three fresh eggs of this sunbird collected by ^Vllitehead near Paranas, 

 Samar, July 19, 1895, are thus described: '^'Shape ovate. Ground-color 

 pale pinkish white, a heavily, marked irregular zone of dull red toward 

 the larger end, and some scattered spots and blotches of the same color 

 over the rest of the shell, with here and there underlying brown markings. 

 Measurements 14 mm. by 10 mm. 



"The nest built by this sunbird differs considerably from that made 

 by ^. magnifra, being a long bag-shaped pocket, with a loose dangling 



