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142. ^Tiioi'YGA MAGNiFicA Sliarpc. (Grant, Ibis, 1896, 

 p. 551.) 



This handsome Sun-bird was fairly common about the base 

 of Canloon, where it frequents the edges of the forest. I Avas 

 fortunate in watching a pair building their nest among some 

 forest-drift and creepers at the foot of a huge forest-tree, 

 only some three feet from the ground ; it contained three 

 terra-cotta-coloured eggs on 15th April (Ibis, 1898, pi. v. figs. 

 5 and 6). 



Iris black ; upper mandible and nostrils dark brown, red 

 towards the tip, loM^er mandible dull pinkish yellow, yellower 

 at the base; feet brownish black. 



143. ^THOPYGA BELLA Twccdd. (Grant, Ibis, 1897, 

 p. 236.) 



Scarce in Samar, frequenting the forests and their outskirts. 

 On 19th July we found a nest dangling at the end of a briar 

 in an open locality. The egg is figured in the ' Ibis ' for 

 1898, pl.v. fig. 10. 



144. tEthopyga flavipectus Grant, Ibis, 1894, p. 513; 

 1895, p. Ill, pi. V. fig. 1 ; 1896, p. 467. 



Several males of this Sun-bird were obtained at an altitude 

 of 3000 feet in Benguet. We met with the species again on 

 the slopes of Monte Dulungan in Mindoro at 4500 feet, but 

 it was here somewhat rare ; the female was also obtained for 

 the first time. 



145. EuDREPANis PULCHERiiiMA Sharpc. (Grant, Ibis, 

 1897, p. 236.) 



Met with in Samar and Leite. In Samar a nest with eggs 

 was taken on the 26th June. [Cf. Ibis, 1898, p. 242.) 



146. EuDREPANis jEFFERYi Graiit, Ibis, 1894, p. 513; 

 1895, pp. Ill, 451, pi. V. fig. 2. 



This species was met with in Benguet at nearly 5000 feet. 

 In Lepanto it was also obtained as high as 7500 feet, where 

 it was partial to some scarlet tube-formed flowers, which 

 were searched busily for insects. A nest was in course of 

 construction in the low forest about the middle of February, 



