CINNYRIS TEYSMANNI, 479 
NOTE XXVII. 
ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS FROM 
SOUTH CELEBES 
BY 
J. BUTTIKOFER. 
Amongst the numerous birds, collected by the Dutch 
botanist Teysmann in the district of Macassar during the 
year 1878, the Leyden Museum is in possession of a 
specimen of the genus Cinnyris, which I am not able to 
identify with any known species and which I introduce 
here under the name of 
Cinnyris Teysmanni. 
Entire crown, sides of head, hind neck, mantle, back 
and rump, wing-coverts and outer edge of quills uniform 
earthy brown with a slight tinge of olive, upper tail- 
coverts purplish brown, tail-feathers purplish black, the 
outer webs narrowly edged with metallic green; chin and 
throat metallic purplish blue, flanked on both sides with 
a broad metallic green stripe, forming a moustachial streak 
which is produced down to the sides of the chest; the 
latter is separated from the breast by a narrow maroon- 
brown cross-bar which is somewhat paler than in C. asia- 
ticus; breast, flanks, abdomen and under tail-coverts black 
with a purplish gloss, pectoral tufts bright yellow with- 
out any trace of orange-red, under wing-coverts and 
thighs dusky black; bill of the same size as in C. asia- 
ticus and C. zenobia, but rather less strongly bent, black; 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
