180 CINNYRIS TEYSMANNI, 
feet black. Wing 5,3 em; tail 3,5; tarsus 1,5, bill from 
front 1,8. 
This bird agrees, as to the color of the under-surface, 
very much with C. asiaticus, only is the maroon-brown 
bar across the chest somewhat paler, the abdomen and 
under tail-coverts are less strongly glossed with purple 
and the orange-red feathers in the pectoral tufts are want- 
ing. But the bird cannot be an immature C. asiaticus, 
showing no marks of any metallie gloss on its upper-sur- 
face while the lower surface entirely presents the metallic 
plumage of the fully adult stage. In the transitional stages 
of C. asiaticus the upper-surface, which is much paler 
than in our Celebean bird, always shows strong marks of 
metallic blue, especially on rump and lesser wing-coverts, 
long before the lower-surface has assumed its full metallic 
plumage. This bird is rather to be placed in Captain Shel- 
ley’s Cyrtostomus or olive-backed Asiatic group, in which 
the green-backed C. zenobia from the Moluccas would be 
its nearest ally. 
The second species, also from the district of Macassar, 
belongs to the genus Dicaeum, and D. Mackloti Mill. may 
be considered to be its nearest ally. From this latter it 
differs, however, in its smaller size and in the upper-sur- 
face having a steel-blue instead of a well-pronounced 
purplish gloss. 
I propose to name this species 
Dicaeum splendidum. 
Entire head, hind neck and sides of neck, mantle, 
back and wing-coverts steel-blue, the latter somewhat 
glossed with purplish, rump and upper tail-coverts scarlet, 
tail-feathers glossy steel-blue; chin white, throat and fore- 
neck scarlet, encircled by a dull black stripe which is 
beginning as a moustachial streak, running down along 
the sides of the neck and forming a rather broad black 
band across the chest, continued by a black stripe along 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
