BUDREPANIS.—ARACHNECHTHRA. uly 
there are traces of lavender-grey markings underlying the chestnut 
and sometimes a few specks and lines of dark purplish-red. Three 
examples measure respectively: ‘5 by °38; °51 by °39; °53 by °39. 
3. Samar, Philippine Islands, 19th July. J. Whitehead, Esq. [C.]. 
Genus EUDREPANIS, Sharpe. 
Eudrepanis pulcherrima (Sharpe). 
(Plate I. fig. 9.) 
Eudrepanis pulcherrima, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 81 (1876-80) ; Ogilvie- 
Grant § Whitehead, Ibis, 1898, p. 242; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 40 
(1906). 
/&thopyga pulcherrima, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 31 (1884). 
Three eggs of the Short-tailed Yellow-backed Sun-bird resemble 
those of Mthopyga siparaja of the first or commoner type, but are 
rather more dull in colour. Three examples measure respectively : 
D5 by 43; °35 by 42; -o4 by -44. 
3. Paranos, Samar, Philippine Islands, J. Whitehead, Esq. [C.]. 
26th June. 
Genus ARACHNECHTHRA, Cad. 
Arachnechthra asiatica (ZLath.). 
(Plate I. figs. 14 & 15.) 
Cinnyris asiaticus, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 181 (1876-80); Legge, B. 
Ceylon, p. 566 (1879). 
Cinnyris asiatica, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 56 (1884) ; Nehrk. Kat. 
Erersammi. p. 77 (1899). 
Arachnechthra asiatica, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 359 (1890) ; 
id., ed. Hume, Nests § Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 252 (1890); Sharpe, 
Hand-l. y. p. 41 (1906). - 
The eggs of the Purple Sun-bird are normally of a narrow, 
pointed oval shape and they are moderately, and in some instances 
highly, glossy. Mr. Hume thus describes them :—“ The ground- 
colour is greenish- greyish- or brownish-white; in some but 
little, in others almost entirely obscured by the markings. These 
latter, always minute and ill-defined, are grey, purplish-grey, brown, 
or greyish-brown. A certain number of the eggs are pretty uni- 
formly speckled and freckled over the whole surface, but in the 
majority the markings are densest towards the large end, where 
many exhibit more or less perfect caps or zones, and to which 
locality in some few specimens the markings are exclusively 
confined.” 
The eggs measure from ‘6 to ‘7 in length, and from °45 to °48 in 
breadth. 
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