CINNYRIS. 651 



15 mm. by 13 mm. Xest attached to tlie under side of a climbing fern 

 about 8 feet [2.4 meters] from tlie ground." (Grant and Whitehead.) 



662. EUDREPANIS JEFFERYI Grant. 



LUZON STJNBIRD. 



Eudrepanis jefferiii Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 3, 1; Ibis (1895), 

 111, pi. 5, fig. 2; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 229 (nest, feeding habits) ; 

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



Luzon {Whitehead, McGregor) . 



Male. — Differs from the male of E. pidcherrima in having the outta- 

 webs of secondaries metallic green instead of olive-green and entire outer 

 webs of primaries blackish brown with traces of metallic green. Bill, 

 legs, and nails black. Length, 95 ; wing, 50 ; tail, 37 ; culmen from base, 

 20.5 ; bill from nostril, IG ; tarsus, 14. 



Female. — Above olive-green, darker and browner on the crown; rump 

 lemon-yellow ; under parts pale yellowish ; grayer on chin and throat ; 

 wing-feathers blackisli bro^^oi, edged with olive-green; rectrices blackisli 

 brown, tipped with dirty white, and narrowly edged with metallic green. 

 Wing, 46 ; tail, 87 ; culmen from base, 19 ; bill from nostril, 15 ; tarsus, 15. 



66:5. EUDREPANIS DECOROSA McGregor. 

 BOHOL SUNBIRB. 

 Eudrepanis decorosa McGregor, Phil. .Tour. Sci. (1907). 2, sec. A, 330. 

 Bohol {McGregor) . 



Male. — Similar to the male of E. jefferyi, but metallic color on 

 secondaries and wing-coverts steel-blue instead of green ; rump-patch and 

 under parts pale sulphur-yellow; red on chest reduced to a few small 

 spots. Bill, legs, and nails black. Length, 89 ; wing, 45 ; tail, 34 ; 

 culmen from base, 19 ; bill from nostril, 15 ; tarsus, 14. 



Female. — Similar to the female of E. jefferyi, but the rump-patch 

 sulphur-yellow. Wing, 44; tail, 23; culmen from base, 18; bill from 

 nostril, 14.5 ; tarsus, 13. 



Genus CINNYKIS Cuvier, 1817. 



Bill and head about equal in length ; tail moderately long, nearly 

 square, and extending beyond the folded wings; nasal opercles covered 

 with short feathers. Males with chin, throat, and fore breast usually 

 metallic colored, or at least of a different color from the lower breast 

 and abdomen; females with no metallic colors and the under parts light 

 yellow or green. 



