p. 50. 



92 SUN-BIRDS OF TIIE INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN REGIONS. [1870. 



(Rev. ot Mag. dc Zool. 1853, pp. 484-487) identified the type, then existing in the Paris 

 Museum, with Ciimyris thoracicus. Less. (Tr. d'Orn. p. 297, 1831), the same individual having 

 Ibis, 1S70, been described by both authors. Lesson's account differs widely from that given by Vieillot; 

 but neither agiee with any Nectarinia since discovered in Timor or other eastern locality. 

 Dr. Pucheran in this instance does not assist us. It seems to be a good species, with yellow 

 pectoral tufts, allied to ChaJcostetha inshjins (Jard.). 



Cinnyris suljlai'us, Vieill., torn. cit. p. 494, "I'lnde " (ISIO). The type is no longer extant 

 {Jide Pucheran, torn. cit. p. 485). Apparently an JEtho})ij(ja of the subsection represented by 

 jE. gouldice, if not that bird itself. 



Two species, N. amasia and N. eximia, are included by Mr. G. R. Gray in his lists of the 

 birds of Xew Guinea and its Islands (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 190 ; 18G1, p. 433) as inhabitants of New 

 Guinea. I have failed in tracing the species to which the title amasia refers. Mr. G. R. Gray 

 quotes no author ; and Dr. O. Fiusch (Xeu-Guinea, p. 163)*, who attributes the title to Lesson, 

 gives no reference. N'. eximia is probably Temminck's species — A. pectoralis (Horsf.) — and has 

 crept into the Tables by oversight. 



Cinnyris eques. Less., has been generically separated, both by its discoverer and by Reichenbach, 

 from the true Sun-birds. The last author having taken it out of Lesson's incongruous genus 

 I'hylidonijris (Tr. d'Orn. p. 299, 1831) made it the type of his genus Cosmetcira (Xat. Syst. 

 i. Supp. ; Handb. p. 283, 1853). Lesson obtained his type specimen in Waigiou. On 

 comparing examples from Mysol a very considerable difference in the dimensions is found. 



The tarsus in the Mysol species is not much shorter than in that of Waigiou, but is less 

 robust. The colouring of the plumage only differs in being paler. I propose the title of 

 CosMETEiR-V MINIMA for this species. 

 Ibis, 1870, This imperfect sketch of the eastern Sun-birds I shall conclude with a Table showing 



those which were described by Linnaeus and Gmelin. In the Twelfth Edition of the ' Systema 

 Naturae' (1766) we find the following: — 



1. 6'^rf/(/« (ylmr/iH<'c7(^//ra ■?) PUSiLL.v, " India," ex Edwards, $ vel d juv. = \ 



2. C. {NectarojjJulaX) cl"ERUC.\kia, " Zcylona," descr. orig. :=C'. zeylonica, L., $ vel d 

 juv. {\). 



3. C. {Arachnechthra) jugul.\bis, " in Philippinis," ex Briss., d adolescens. 



4. C (iVfcfaro/^/^Za) SPER.\TA, "?■« Philippinis," ex Briss., d adult. 



5. C. {ArachnechthraVj lihilippina, ''in Philippinis," ex Briss. =C. jugulabis, L., d vel 

 $ juv. (]). 



6. C. {Nectarophila) zetloxica, " Zeylona," d adult., descr. orig. 



7. C. [Arachnechthra) lotenia, " Zeylona," d adult., descr. orig. 



• Of tbc twenty species referred to Xectarinia by Dr. 0. Finsch (J. c.) at least nine belong to the genus Mi/zomela. 

 Dr. Finsch 's Tabic of distribution, in other respects, requires revision. 



