366 NECTABIKIIDjE. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the head and 

 neck, back, scapulars, and wing-coverts yellowish green ; rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and a collar on the upper back metallic blue ; 

 tail blackish brown, the two or three outer pairs of feathers 



Fig. 100. — Head of A. hyjtogrammko. 



narrowly tipped with white : quills brown, edged with the colour 

 of the back ; chin, throat, breast, abdomen, and sides of the body 

 yellow, streaked with greenish brown ; vent, flanks, and under 

 tail-coverts greenish brown. 



Female. The blue collar is absent, and the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts are of the same colour as the back. 



Legs and feet greenish brown or dark plumbeous green ; the bill 

 horny black, and, in the male, the gape dull yellow ; irides dark 

 brown (Davison). 



Length 5-5 ; tail 2 ; wing 2*6 ; tarsus -6 ; bill from gape -9. 

 The female is a little smaller. 



Distribution. Tenasserim from Mergui southwards, extending 

 down the Malay peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. 



903. Anthothreptes malaccensis. The Brown-throated ftv.n-lird. 



Certhia malaccensis, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insuh-. ii, p. 91 (1786). 



Nectarinia malaccensis (ScopX Blyth, Cat. p. 225. 



Anthreptes malaccensis {Scop.), Horsf. fy M. Cat. ii. p. 737 ; Shelley, 

 Man. Neet. pp. xliii, xliv, 315, pi. 102; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi, 

 p. 180 : Hume, Cat. no. 233 ter ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 324. 



Anthothreptes malaccensis (Scop.), Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix, p. 122 

 (part.). 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, back, and sides of the 

 neck metallic lilac, according to the light ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts metallic violet-purple ; lores and sides of the head dull 

 greenish yellow ; a stripe from the gape down the side of the 

 throat coppery purple ; chin and throat cinnamon-brown ; lower 

 plumage yellow, tinged with green on the flanks and vent ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries yellowish white; tail bluish brown, 

 edged with metallic purple on the outer webs ; lesser and most of 

 the median wing-coverts brilliant purple ; the longer median 

 coverts and scapulars olive-brown, tipped with cinnamon ; greater 

 coverts olive-brown, edged with cinnamon; quills brown, edged 

 with olive-green, with a tinge of ferruginous. 



