CINNYRIS. 653 



{Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, 

 Whitehead, Bartsch) ; Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Siquijor 

 (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Tablas (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Ticao 

 ( McGregor ) . 



Male. — Held away from the light top of head and hind neck reddish 

 bronze, lower back, rump, and tail-coverts metallic green and amethystine ; 

 held toward the light, head and neck change to bronze-green ; back, rump, 

 and tail-coverts change to steel-green ; lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts dull 

 black; mantle, sides of neck, and wing-coverts dark maroon-red; chin, 

 throat, and chest metallic violet away from the light, changing to purple 

 when held toward the light; breast poppy-red; abdomen, thighs, flanks, 

 and crissum olive-green; the last washed with red in some specimens; 

 wing-feathers blackish, edged with maroon, a small metallic colored patch 

 at carpal joint ; rectrices blackish, edged with metallic violet and green. 

 Iris brown ; bill, legs, and nails black. A male from Masbate measures : 

 Length, 102; wing, 50; tail, 29; culmen from base, 16; bill from nostril, 

 14 ; tarsus, 12. 



Female. — Above light olive-green; feathers of head edged with gray; 

 below greenish yellow, brighter on abdomen, flanks, and crissum; wings 

 and tail blackish brown; primaries and secondaries edged with dull 

 orange-rufous on outer webs and with white on inner webs; rectrices 

 tipped with light gray. A female from Luzon, wing, 50 ; tail, 30 ; culmen 

 from base, 16; bill from nostril, 14; tarsus, 12. 



"Ten males from Palawan average: Length, 104; wing, 50; tail, 31; 



tarsus, 13 ; middle toe with claw, 13 ; culmen, 20. Ten females, culmen, 



19; wing, 47; tail, 28; tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 13. Iris dark 



brown; bill, legs, and feet black. Called by natives of Palawan 'sopra 



daraga.' Breeding in Palawan in December; in Siquijor in February; 



in Negros in January ; and in Samar in April." {Bourns and Worcester 



MS.) 



665. CINNYRIS HENKEI Meyer. 



HENKE'S SUNBIRD. 



Cinnyris henkei Meyer, Zeitschr. fiir Ges. Oni. (1884), 207, pi. 7. 



Cinnyris wMteheadi Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 2, 1; Ibis (1894), 

 514, pi. 14, fig. 1; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 230 (distribution); Mc- 

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



Leptocoma henkei Dubois, Syn. Av. (1902), 699. 



Sa-uit sa-uit, Calayan. 



Babuyan Claro (McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Camigufn N. (McGregor) ; 

 Fuga (McGregor) ; Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor) . 



Male. — Similar to C. sperata, but mantle, hind neck, and sides of 

 neck dull black; quills and wing-coverts entirely black, except the metallic 

 green lesser coverts; abdomen, thighs, and crissum black, washed with 

 olive-green. A male from Calayan measures: Wing, 535; tail, 32; 

 culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 16; tarsus, 15. 

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