12-2 Jour., Hum. Nat. Hist. -Svc, Vol. XXVIJI, No. 1. [Dec, yu, I'.'l-'l. 



1 198. (894) *Cyrtostomus lotenius. LoLetis tiimhird. 



Ccrtlua lotcuia Linn., IS.N., I., p. 188, (17G6), (Ccijlon). 

 Cuylon aud 8. India. 



1 199. (895) Cyrtostomus asiaticus asiaticus. The Purple 



Sunbird. 



Ccrtliia asiatica Lath., Ind. Orn., i., j). 288, (1790), {India)' 

 (Gurgaon, C. India). 

 The whole of India except area occupied by hrcviivstris 

 and intermedia. 



1200. (895) Cyrtostomus asiaticus brevirostris. The Balu- 



chistan Purple Sunbird. 



Neetarinia (Aiaebncethra) brevirostris Blanjord, Ibis., 1873, 

 p. 86, {Jalk, Baluchistan). 



Sind, Baluchistan, Afghanistan and E. Persia. 



1 20 1. (895) Cyrtostomus asiaticus intermedius. The Burmese 



Purple Sunbird. 



Arachnecthara intermedia Hume, Ibis, 1870, 2^- 436, (Burma). 

 Assam and Burma. 



1202. (896) Cyrtostomus brasiliana. Van HasseWs Sunbird. 



Certhia brasiliana G'mel., Sys. Nai.,t.,p. 414:, (IISS), (Brazil), 

 (Java, Oberholsor). 

 Java and Singapore to Assam. 



1203. (897t) Cyrtostomus pectoralis pectoralis. The Malay 



Yellow-breasted Sunbird. 



Nectarinia pectoralis Ilorsf., Trans., Linn. Soc, xiii.. p. 167, 

 (1821), (Java). 



Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Lombok, Flores, N'cobars and 

 Malay Pen. to S. Tennasserun. 



1204. (897) Cyrtostomus pectoralis blanfordi. The Kondol 



Yellow-breasted Sunbird. 



Stuart Baker Bull, B.O.C., xli., x>. 71, (1921), (Kondol, Nicobars) 

 Kondol Is. Nicobars. 



1205. (898) Cyrtostomus flammaxiUaris flammaxiilaris. 



The Burmese Yellou'-breasted Sunbird. 



Nectarinia flammaxillaris Bhjih, J.A.S.B., xiv., p. 557, (1845), 

 (Tennasserim). 

 South Burma, Cochin China, Siam and Malay Peninsula. 



* Cyrloslomus and Arachnedhra being identical genetically the former name 

 has priority. 



t T can tiace no differences bet\^ecn C pectoralis yrctornlis antl C. kloss 

 which are not purely individual. 



