656 MANUAL OF PIllLll'PI.NE BIRDS. 



color as back; sides of face dark ashy gray, edges of feathers darker 

 than centers; chin light yellow; entire throat gray, faintly washed with 

 yellow; entire breast bright orange-yellow paler on flanks, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts; axillars, under wing-coverts, and inner webs of quills 

 pure white." {Bourns and }Yorcestcr.) 



"The length of our specimens was not taken in the flesh. Average 

 from six males: Wing, 48; tail, 31; culmen, 20; tarsus, 14; middle toe 

 with claw, 13. Six females, wing, 44; tail, 28; culmen, 18; tarsus, 13; 

 middle toe with claw, 13. Bill, iris, legs, feet, and nails black." 

 {Bourns and Wo7-cester MS.) 



669. CINNYRIS JUGULARIS (Linnpeus). 

 YELLOW-BREASTED SUNBIRD. 



Certhia jugularis Linn^us, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 185. 



Cinnyris jugularis Shelley, Monogr. Nectarin. pt. 3 (1877), 151, pt. 6 

 (1878), pi. 48; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 84; Grant 

 and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 243 (eggs); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 

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



Cinnyris obscurior Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 3, 1; (1895), 451. 



Cyrtostomus dinagatensis Meaens, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 5. 



Cyrtostomiis jugularis mindanensis Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1909), 

 36, 443.* 



Cyrtostomus jugularis woodi Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. (1909), 36, 

 444.t 



Tam-si, Bohol; pu-si-u, Ticao and Masbate; pi-pit pu-go, Manila. 



Bantayan (McGregor); Basiao, off Samar (Bartsch) ; Basilan (Everett, Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Boliol (Everett, McGregor) ; Bongao 

 (Everett) ; Caluya (Porter) ; Camiguin S. (Murray) ; Catanduanea (Whitehead) ; 

 Cebu (Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Dinagat 

 (Everett) ; Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Leyte (Everett, 

 Steere Exp., Whitehead); Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Everett, Steere Exp., 

 Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, Bartsch) ; Maestre de Campo (Mc- 

 Gregor d Worcester) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Bourns d Worcester, 

 McGregor, Bartsch) ; Mindanao (Steere, Everett, Koch d Schadenberg, Steere Exp., 



* "Characters. — Most closely resembling Cyrtostomus jugularis jugularis of 

 Luzon, but sliglitly larger, with the upper parts olive-green instead of brownish 

 olive-gray; under parts nearly uniform lemon-yellow instead of canary-yellow." 



(M earns.) 



t "Characters. — Smaller than Cyrtostomus jugularis aurora, C. jugularis 

 jugularis, or C. jugularis dinagatensis, old males differing from all three in the 

 metallic reflections on the middle of the dark metallic plastron, which are bluish 

 and violet instead of green-blue; under parts shading very gradually from rich 

 orange, adjoining the dark metallic plastron, to clear yellow on the crissum and 

 under tail-coverts; back a more golden olive-green than in the other Philippine 

 forms; forehead, lores, and superciliary stripe solid metallic violet purple." 



(M earns.) 



