1878.] THE ISLAND OF PALAWAN. 615 



30. Orthotomus euficeps. 



Edela ruficeps, Lesson, Tr. d'Orn. p. 309. 

 [P. Princesa, 6 ? , December 1877.] 



31. Anthus macdlatus. 



Anthus macxdatus, Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 ; Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 696. 

 no. 48. \Antea, p. 522.] 



[P. Princesa, $ , January 2, 1878.] 



32. Mtzanthe ptgm^a (121). P.Z.S.1878, 

 [P. Princesa, 6 , January 7, 1877 : iris dark brown ; bill and legs black.] 



33. Nectakophila speeata (122). 



[P. Princesa, d , January 1878. ? , December 29, 1878 : iris warm brown.] 

 Two males, not adult ; the violet throat and plastron bounded on both sides with a white 

 border, the scarlet breast mixed with white, the crown dingy dull brown. 



34. Cyrtostomus aurora, n. sp. 



Notwithstanding that Captain Shelley, in his beautiful work on the Sun-birds, includes the 

 large group of Asiatic and Australian Nectariniida;, of which C. jugidaris and C. asiaticus may 

 be taken as types, along with a number of other species, under Cuvier's genus Cinnyris, I still 

 adhere to the view expressed by me (Ibis, 1870, p. 19) \_antea, p. 71] that these Sun-birds form 

 a natural, distinctive, and separate section of the family. For it I adopted Dr. Cabanis's generic 

 title Arachnechthra ; but as the type of that genus is C. lotenia, L., which may be considered 

 generically separable (although not so in my opinion), and as Dr. Cabanis established his genus 

 Cyrtostomus (type C. jugularis, L.) before that of Arachnechthra, according to strict rule, the 

 generic title of Cyrtostomus should be employed ; and I observe that this is the view of Count 

 Salvadori. There are now twelve species of this group described — namely, C. asiaticus, C. lotenia, 

 C. osea, C. hrevirostris, C.flammaxillaris, C.andamanicus, C. rhizophorce, C.pectoraUs, C.frenatus, 

 C. jugularis, C. zenohia, and C. Solaris. To this list Mr. Everett's researches in Palawan enable 

 me to add a thirteenth. 



Male. Above uniform dark olive-green. Forehead, chin, throat, cheeks, and upper breast 

 metallic steel-blue with shades of green and violet in certain lights. Lower breast fiery orange- 

 red. Remainder of lower surface, under tail-coverts, and wing-lining bright yellow. Quills 

 brown, faintly edged with olive-green. Eectrices black ; terminal half of outer pair Avhite, a 

 broad white terminal patch on the penultimate pair ; apices of third pair fringed with white, of 

 fourth pair still less so. 



Female. Above and ear-coverts olive-green, slightly lighter in shade than that of male. 

 Superciliaries, cheeks, and all the under surface and the wing-lining bright yellow. Wing- 

 feathers brown, margined with olive-green. Eectrices as in male. 



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