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3. Arachnechthra flammaxillaris (Blyth), Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xiv. p. 557 (1845). 

 Nectariniajngidaris, Vieillot (Jard.), ap. Blyth, op. cit. xii. p. 979, c?, ?, " Tenasserim." 



Hah. Arracan (Blyth) ; Moulmein, Kyodan, Salween valley (Walden, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 511) . 

 Pinang (Moore, Cat. E. I. C. Mus. ii. no. 1080); Pinang (Mus. iiostr.) ; Siam (Gould, P. Z. S. 

 1859, p. 151). 



The yellow under-plumage is much paler than in A. pectoralis (Horsf.). The superciliary 

 streak is very faint in the male, but more prominent in the female. The origin assigned to the 

 specimen marked "China, very rare," in the Derby Museum at Liverpool, and identified Ibis, 1R70, 

 with this species by Mr. Blyth (Ibis, 1865, p. 30), must be regarded as doubtful {conf. ^""^' 

 Swinhoe, Ibis, 1866, p. 129). This species has yet to be compared with A.jugulan's, from the 

 Philippines, but appears to differ at least in possessing a maroon transverse pectoral band. 



4. Arachnechthra RHizoPHOEiE, Swinhoe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. iv. p. 436, 

 "Hainan" (1 Dec. 1869). 



Closely allied to A. flammaxiUaris ; but possessing a steel-blue frontal patch. 



5. Arachnechthra pectoralis (Horsf.), Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 167, <S,'i, "Java" (1820), 

 descr. orig. 



Nectarinia eximia, Temm., PI. Col. livr. 23, t. 138. f. 1, 2, 6, ?, "Java" (July 26, 1823), 

 descr. orig. ; S. Miiller & Schl., Verb. Nat. Gesch. Ned. Overz. Bez. Zool. Aves, p. 61, no. 10 

 [1846*]. 



Chmyris ornatus. Less., Diet. Sc. Nat. vol. 1. p. 15, c?, ? (1827), ex Temm. t. 138. f. 1, 2. 



Cinnyris luteoventer, Less., Tr. p. 298, no. 29, 6, " Sunda Islands" (1831), descr. orig. {Jide 

 Pucheran, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1853, p. 488). 



Nectarinia pectoralis, Horsf., Jard. Nat. Lib. xxxvi. pp. 226, 266, t. 25. f. 1, 6, "Java." 



Hah. Java, Sumatra, inland as well as on the coast, in enclosures and bushes, never on the 

 mountains (Miiller); Nicobars (Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1846, p. 370; Von Pelzeln, Novara, Aves, 

 p. 52); Andamans (Tytler, Ibis, 1867, p. 322); Banjermassing (Motley _y?(/e Sclater) ; Lombok, 

 Flores (Wallace); Labuan (Motley & Dillwyn). 



Both Blyth and Moore state that this species is found in the Malay Peninsula. I 

 have never seen an authentic Malayan specimen; but I do possess an example of A. flam- Ibis, 1 870, 

 maxiUaris (Blyth) from Pinang. Sumatran and Javan individuals in my collection are undis- ^' " ' 

 tinguishable ; those from Flores and Lombok are much larger, the bill being fully '125 inch and 

 the wing -25 longer. The female is olive-green above, and sulphur-yellow underneath. The 

 pectoral and abdominal plumage of the male is gamboge-yellow, as in A.frenata (Miiller). No 

 maroon band separates the steel-blue plastron from the yellow bi-east. A Lombok male in my 

 collection has a longitudinal metallic blue stripe from the chin to the breast, the forehead and 



* [Mr. G. R. Crotch, whose useful determination of the dates of publication of the several Uvraisons of the ' Planches 

 Coloriees ' we have already printed (Ibis, 1868, pp. 499, 500), has kindly informed us that the ornithological plates in the 

 'Zoologie' of the great Dutch work cited in the text, with the exception of those representing the species of Pittce (pub- 

 lished in 1839-40), appeared in 1846 ; but the descriptions of the species of Ne,ctarima> in the volume containing the ' Land- 

 en YoLkenkunde' appeared in 1843. We have accordingly added those dates to Lord Walden's text. — E». of 'Ibis.'J 



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