1870.] INDIAN AND AUSTEALIAN EEGIONS. 87 



possess Indo-Malayan, and the other, Chalcostetha ■jjorphyrolwrna, Austro-Malayaii affinities. One 

 of the foreign species, A. malaecensis, is an Indo-Malayan form ; the other, A. frenata, is a 

 widely-diffused Australian species. 



Mr. Wallace possesses an example of what appears to be the young male of a sixth species 

 from Celebes. It has the edgings of the quill-feathers and most part of the upper surface of the 

 rectrices dull red. 



31. Nectarophila sperata (L.), S. N. ed. xii. p. lSG,no. 13, "Philippines" (176G), exBriss. 

 no. 27. 



Certhia j^fii^ippensis purpurea, Briss., Orn. iii. p. 655, no. 27, t. 31. f. 2d', 3 $ , " Ins. 

 Philippens." (17C0), descr. orig. 



Grimpereau des Philifpines, Buff., PI. Enl. t. 246. f . 1 d' , 2 ? . 



Certhia jugularis, P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Anhang, p. 98, no. 29 (1776), ex Buff. 



Troisieme Grimpereaic de I'lsle de Lucon, Sonn., Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 63. t. 30, f. D, d adult., 

 descr. orig. 



Certhia chalyhea. Scop., Fl. et Faun. Insub. ii. p. 91, no. 68 (1780), ex Sonn. t. 30. f. D. 



Certhia sperata, L., var. /3, Gm., S. N. i. p. 477, no. 13, ex Sonu. ; var. -y. Lath., Ind. Orn. i. 

 p. 283, no. 8, ex Gm. 



Le Sou'i-manga a gorge violette, Audeb. & Vieill., Ois. Dor. ii. p. 50, t. 32, d adult., ex ^'^i^' \^70, 

 Sonn. 



Certhia affinis, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. i. p. 208 (1811), ex Audeb. & Vieill. t. 32. 



Nectarinia coccinigastra, Temm., PI. Col. livr. 65, t. 388. f. 3, $ adult., "Manilla" 

 (May 27, 1826), descr. orig. 



Nectarinia philippensis (part.), Meyen, Reise, Zool. p. 206 (1834). 



Certhia zeylonica, L., ap. Meyen, I. c. 6 adult., " Manilla," nee L. 



Nectarinia affinis (Shaw), Jard., Nat. Lib. xxxvi. pp. 216, 262, t. 20, d adult., " patr. 

 incert." 



Anthreptes expectata, Licht., Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 56, " Manilla" (1854). 



Nectarinia coccineogastra, Temm., Von Martens, J. fiir Orn. 1866, p. 12, no. 48 ; Id., 

 Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, p. 189. 



Hah. Luzon (Von Martens). 



Specimens, of both sexes, brought to France from the Philippines by Poivre, enabled 

 Brisson to describe the species which Linnaeus named Certhia sperata. Brisson described the 

 crown as of a metallic-violet colour ; Sonnerat, from specimens obtained by himself, recorded that 

 part as being metallic-green ; and Temminck used expressions, when describing the varying hues 

 of this beautiful species, which convey a meaning slightly differing from that transmitted by the 

 two older authors. Setting aside the extreme improbability of three closely allied yet distinct 

 species of this isolated form co-existing at Manilla, it seems pretty clear that the slight 

 discrepancies to be found on comparing the original descriptions result from the difficulty of 

 noting the iridescent hues of metallic plumage. Violet and green are frequently interchangeable, 

 according to the light, as, for instance, in the dorsal plumage of A. malaecensis (Scop.). 



