652 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Species. » 



a'. Chin, tnroat, and fore breast black or metallic colored, very distinct from 

 the color of lower breast and abdomen (males) . 

 &*. Breast bright red. 



c\ Mantle maroon-red sperata (p. 652) 



cr. Mantle 'velvety black henkei (p. 653) 



b-. Breast and abdomen yellow, or orange and yellow. 



c\ Metallic color on under surface confined to chin and middle of fore throat. 

 d^. Forehead metallic steel-green: crown and nape yellowish olive-green. 



flagrans (p. 654) 

 d-. Forehead dark metallic purple; crown and nape dull red. 



guimarasensis ( p. 6.55 ) 

 (f. Metallic color of under surface covering entire chin, throat, and fore 

 breast, 

 rf*. Tail not tipped with white; forehead and crown metallic j.ncen; mantle 



maroon-red; entire chin and throat metallic purple juliae (p. 654) 



d^. Tail with a broad white tip ; forehead and all the upper parts dull 

 green; chin, throat, and fore breast metallic bluish black, 

 e*. Posterior under parts yellow with no orange next the black fore 



breast jugularis (p. 656) 



c'-. Posterior under parts yellow with a large bright orange piitcli next 



the black fore breast aurora (p. 658) 



a'. Chin, throat, and breast yellow or greenish, never metallic, and not very 

 different in color from the abdomen (females).* 

 6'. Light tip of tail gray, about 6 mm. in length on outermost pair of rectrices; 

 general color of under parts apple-green. 



c\ Primaries and secondaries ed^ed with dull orange-rufous.) ^ . ^' 



" \ henkei (p. 65.3) 



C-. Primaries, secondaries, and greater coverts edged with light claret-brown, 



this color extending faintly across the back juliae (p. 654) 



6^ Light tip of tail wliite, about 10 mm. in length on outermost pair of 



rectrices; general color of under parts gamboge-yellow.. J"' ^ ?'„, 



*= 1 o o J jaurora (p. 658) 



664. CINNYRIS SPERATA (Linnaeus). 



RED-BREASTED SUNBIRD. 



Certhia sperata Linn.kus, Sj'st. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 186. 

 Cinnyris speratus Shelley, Monogi". Nectarin. pt. 4 (1877), 131, pi. 43. 

 Cinnyris sperata Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 63; Whitehead, 

 Ibis (1899), 230; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 99. 



Siete colores, Spanish name in general use. 



Basiao, off Samar {Bartsch) ; Bohol {McGregor) ; Calamianes (lioums <t 

 'Worcester, McGregor) ; Cebu {Bourns tC- Worcester) ; Dinagat {Everett) ; Guimaras 

 {Bteere, Steere Exp.); Leyte {Steere Exp., Whitehead); Lubang {McGregor); 

 Luzon {Meyer, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marinduque {Steere Exp.) ; Masbate 

 {Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindanao {Everett, Koch d 

 Schadenberg, Celestino) ; Mindoro {Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Everett, 

 McGregor) ; Negros {Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Keay) ; 

 Nipa {Everett) ; Palawan {Everett, Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns d 

 Worcester, White) ; Panay {Bourns d Worcester) ; Polillo {McGregor) ; Romblon 



* I have not seen the females of C. gnimarnsensis and C. flagran.t. 



