58 ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS 



vad. Ucc. di Borneo, p. 183 (\S14); id. TJcc. di Sumatra, 



p. 214 (1879); — Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 353, pi. 113 (1878); 



— Nicholson, Ibis 1883, p. 253. 

 Arachnothera affims , Gadow , Cat. Birds Br. Mus. Vol. IX. p. 106 (1884) 



(part.); — Snelleman, Sum. Exp. Vogels, p. 41 (1884). 

 Arachnothera concolor (n. sp.), Schl. (PI. 1 to Snelleman's text of ^. 



affinis). 



6 specimens. 



» Iris brown , bill blackish , lower mandible paler, feet pale 

 flesh-color. Native name: Pidcmtongy 



Dr. Gadow is certainly wrong in uniting this species 

 with the closely allied A. a^nis. I have before me 10 spe- 

 cimens of A. modesta , one of which is from Singapore, 

 the others from Western Sumatra , against 16 specimens 

 of A. afinis , all of which are from Java. All the specimens 

 of A. modesta are easily distinguished by the strongly 

 pronounced greenish tinge on the lower surface, while 

 these parts in A. affims are gray with very little or no 

 greenish tinge. In both species throat and chest have olivace- 

 ous shaft-stripes, which latter are more developed in A. ajjinis 

 than they are in A. modesta. The difference in size is not 

 constant, as I have before me specimens of tI. mo<^ésto from 

 Sumatra, which are fully as large as A. aJJinis from Java. 



106. Arachnothera chry sogeny s. 



Certhia longirostra , Raffl. t. c. p. 299. 



Arachnothera chrysogenys, Temm. P. C. IV. 388, fig. 1 (1826); — 

 Mull. Verb. Land- en Volkenk. p. 405 (1843); — Mull. & Schl. 

 Verb. Zool. Aves, p. 69 (1846); — Salvad. Ucc. di Borneo, 

 p. 181 (1874); id. Ucc. di Sumatra, p. 214 (1879); — 

 Tweedd. Ibis 1877, p. 301; — Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 365, 

 pi. 117 (1879); — Gadow, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. IX. p. 108 (1884). 



1 specimen (Q)- 

 »Iris chestnut brown, bill black, lower mandible at 

 base pale horny, feet horny gray. Native name: Pidjantong.'^ 



107. Arachnothera flavigaster. 



Anthrepies ftavigaster , Eyton , P. Z. S. 1839, p. 105. 

 Arachnothera Jlavigastra , Blyth, J. A. S. B. XIV. p. 557 (1845); — 

 Tweedd. Ibis 1877, p. 300. 



Notes from the Leyden IMusenxn , Vol. IX. 



