650 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



(UJL EUDREPANIS PULCHERRIMA (Sliarpe). 

 MINDANAO SUNBIRD. 



^thopyga pulcherrima Sharpe, Nature (IS7C), 14, 297; Gadow. Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 31. 

 Eudrepanis pulcherrima Shaepe, Trans. lAnn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 



341; Shelley, IMonogr. Nectarin. pt. 3 (1877), 83, pi. 28; Grant and 



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



McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 99. 

 .^thopyga diibia Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 112. 



Basilan (Steere, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Dinagat {Everett) ; Leyte 

 (Steere Exp., Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Celcstino) ; Samar [Steere Exp., Bourns 

 d Worcester, Whitehead) . 



Male. — Forehead and crown to opposite center of eye metallic french- 

 blue; hind crown, sides of neck, and back olive-green; lower back and 

 rump lemon-yellow; a patch al)ove car-coverts metallic greenish blue; 

 lores, cheeks, and jaw dull black; under parts rich lemon-yellow becoming 

 much paler on lower abdomen, flanks, and crissum; a large scarlet patch 

 on chest partly broken up by the yellow tips of the featliers; wing-quills 

 blackish brown, externally edged with olive-gTeen and on inner webs 

 with white; secondary-coverts black, broadly tipped with rich metallic 

 green; alula and primary-coverts black, narrowly edged or tipped with 

 metallic green ; upper tail-coverts and middle ]jair of rectrices i-ich metallic 

 green, the other rectrices black, edged with nu'tallic green; lining of wing 

 white. A male from Basilan measures: Length, 80 : wing. 45 : tail, 23.5 ; 

 culmen from base, 19; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, \[. 



''Female. — Without any metallic colors; up])er parts oii\c, inclining 

 to ashy brown on the crown and sides of the head ; tail dark brown, washed 

 with olive, tipped with white; under wing-coverts and inner edge of quills 

 white; rest of under parts dingy yellowish. Wing, 4(5 tail, 25; tarsus, 

 14." (Gadow.) 



"Three male birds average: Length. it5 ; wing, 48; tail, '33; cidinen, 

 21; tarsus, 14; middle toe witli claw. 13. Two females, length, 85; 

 wing, 43; tail. 23: culmen. 21; tarsus. 1 :! ; iniddie toe with claw, 12. 

 Iris brownish red; legs, feet, and luiils black; bill black. Birds from 

 Basilan, however, have legs and feet brown. Food insects." (Bourns 

 and Worcester MS.) 



"Whitehead collected three slightly incubated eggs of this short-tailed 

 sunbird near I'aranas, Samar, on July 20, 189(5. They are described as 

 follows: "Shape ovate. Ground-color dull pink, rather thicky mottled 

 all over with pinkish gray, especially towards the larger end, the markings 

 forming a rather distinct zone round the pole. The over-markings are 

 small rounded spots and dots of deep vandyke-brown. Measurements 



