642 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Subfamily NECTARINIIN A. 
Genera. 
a‘, Nasal opercles covered with shorfMeathers; rectrices long and graduated. 
Chalcostetha (p. 642) 
a’, Nasal opercles naked; or, if feathered, the tail moderate in length and nearly 
square. 
b%. Rump bright yellow, or else the throat greenish or pale yellow. 
ce’. Tail of males usually long and strongly graduate; central rectrices often 
slender and somewhat pointed and always extending beyond the feet. 
ZEthopyga (p. 643) 
c. Tail short and nearly square, never extending beyond the toes. 
Eudrepanis (p. 649) 
b?. Rump dull green, or some metallic color nearly uniform with the back; 
tail square, none of the rectrices narrow. 
ec. Much smaller; wing about 60 mm.; bill more slender and more strongly 
CUTived: Seek oe Ae STs de oo eee pe ctns So cee pee wane aes aroe Cinnyris (p. 651) 
ce, Much larger; wing about 70 mm.; bill stouter and but slightly curved. 
Anthreptes (p. 658) 
Genus CHALCOSTETHA Cabanis, 1850. 
Back, rump, and tail-coverts metallic green and purple; top of head 
bright metallic green; rectrices graduated; nasal opercles covered with 
short feathers. The last character mentioned distinguishes Chalcostetha 
from all nearly related genera. 
652. CHALCOSTETHA CALCOSTETHA (Jardine). 
COPPER-BREASTED SUNBIRD, 
Nectarinia calcostetha JARDINE, Monogr. Sun-Birds (1842), 263. 
Nectarinia insignis JARDINE, Monogr. Sun-Birds (1842), 274. 
Chalcostetha insignis SHELLEY, Monogr. Nect. pt. 4, (1877), 87; pl. 30; 
Gapow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 12; McGrecor and WORCESTER, 
Hand-List (1906), 98. 
Balabae (Everett); Palawan (Hverett, Whitehead, Steere Hap., Bourns ¢ 
Worcester, White). Tenasserim, Cochin China, Sunda Islands, Malay Peninsula, 
Siam, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes. 
Male.—Forehead, crown, and nape metallic green; mantle dull black; 
median and lesser wing-coverts, back, and tail-coverts metallic purple 
when held away from.the light, changing to dark green when held toward 
the light; tail black, some of its feathers edged with violet ; wings blackish 
brown, the greater secondary-coverts edged with violet; middle of throat 
and breast with a large metallic copper-colored patch; chin, a line down 
each side of the copper-colored patch, and lower breast metallic violet; 
abdomen and under tail-coverts black; pectoral tufts bright lemon-yellow. 
Length, about 140; wing, 61; tail, 52; culmen from base, 18; bill from 
