556 ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE PHILIPPINES. [1877. 



$ . Above, wing-coverts, and edgings to quills olive-green. Uropygium bright sulphur- 

 yellow as in S . Space before the eye, cheeks, ear-coverts, chin, throat, and upper breast grey 

 tinged with yellowish olive-green. Lower breast, abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts white 

 tinged with yellow. Under wing-coverts white, faintly tinged with yellow. Quills and rectrices 

 dark brown, margined with olive; lateral rectrices tipped with albescent olive. 



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P.Z.S.1877, [Surigao, c? , May. Iris dark umber, b. d juv.] 



P' ■ Five examples of this lovely small Sun-bird were obtained by Mr. Everett, the discoverer of 



the species. Four are in the full adult dress, and are marked d ; and one is in the dull olive- 

 grey dress of either the young male or adult female, but is marked d juv. No example marked 

 2 is sent. 



52. Nectakophila sperata (122). 



Cinnyris speratiis (Linn.), Shelley, Cinnyridce, pt. iv. t. 



[Butuan, 6 , May. Iris brown ; bill jet-black ; legs blackish brown, b. Surigao, s , May ; 

 Placer, 6 , July.] 



Mr. Everett has sent a large series (fifteen examples) from North Mindanao and Dinagat 

 Island of this species in full male plumage. They in no respect differ from Luzon, Guimaras, 

 and Negros individuals, excepting that the average lengtli of their bill is less. Along with this 

 series of males is a smaller series (five) of individuals all marked 2 by Mr. Everett, and which I 

 am at a loss to determine. Were it not that Captain Shelley has figured and described (/. c.) the 

 female from a specimen obtained by Dr. Steere in Negros (X) as having the " sides and upper 

 half of the head and neck ashy grey; the wings dark brown, edged yellowish olive; underparts 

 sulphur-yellow," I should without hesitation refer the examples marked 2 by Mr. Everett to 

 N. sperata 2 . In a Surigao example (marked 2 ) the quills are brown, conspicuously margined 

 with rusty ochre, so that the wing when closed appears to be ferruginous or ruddy yellowish 

 brown. The forehead, vertex, and nape are dull brownish grey. The chin and all the throat and 

 sides of head light grey, tinged with yellow. Breast, abdomen, and flanks grey, washed with a 

 brighter yellow *. Outer pair of rectrices with a pale ; Ibescent apical mark. This individual 

 must either be N. sperata 2 vel d juv., or belong to some undescribed species. Dimensions as 

 in N. sperata <s . 



53. Aeachnechthea jugulaeis (123). 



[Butuan, 6 2 , May ; Surigao, c? 2 , May and June ; Placer, $ , July.] 



* Unfortunately Captain Shelley does not state with precision the habitats of the specimens he has described and 

 figured. But on referring to Mr. Sharpe's account it will be found that the only supposed female of this species was 

 obtained by Dr. Steere in Negros. 



