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with feathers rounded at tip; under parts, including under tail-coverts, 
yellow, whitish on middle of abdomen. Size considerably smaller than 
male.. Culmen, 18; wing, 48. 
“Young male in first nid eae! sides of throat, and upper 
parts smoke-gray, washed on lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 
with green; upper wing-coverts and exposed portion of outer webs of 
quills olive-green; under parts, including stripe on middle of chin and 
throat, smoke-gray washed with greenish yellow; lining of wings white; 
tail-feathers pointed, similar to the adult but shorter and duller. Iris 
brown; bill black, orange at base, yellow and orange inside; metatarsus 
black; toes orange, dusky above. Older males soon grow to resemble 
adults, the orange first showing in the middle of the breast, the flanks 
and belly becoming yellow at the same time, the pectoral tufts and 
richest coloring probably not appearing before the second year.” 
(Mearns.) 
655. AZATHOPYGA SHELLEY! Sharpe. 
SHELLEY’S SUNBIRD, 
Aithopyga shelleyi SHARPE, Nature (1876), 14, 297; Trans. Linn. Soe. 2d. 
ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 342;.SHELLEY, Monogr. Nectarin. (1877), pt. 3, 75; 
(1880), pts. 11 & 12, pls. 24 & 25, fig. 1; Gapow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
(1884), 9, 29; McoGrecor and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 98. 
Balabae (Steere, Everett); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester); Palawan 
(Steere, Whitehead, Everett, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, 
Celestino, White). 
Male.—Forehead, crown, long moustachial stripe, upper tail-coverts, 
middle rectrices, and outer webs of remaining rectrices dark metallic 
green when held away from the light, changing to dark blue when held 
toward the light; occiput, mantle, and sides of head and neck maroon- 
red; chin and a narrow line bordering the throat maroon-red; throat 
and breast sulphur-yellow, the latter streaked with vermilion; abdomen 
pale gray or white, washed in the middle with pale yellow; under tail- 
coverts pale yellow ; back olive-green ; rump sulphur-yellow ; wing-feathers 
blackish brown edged with olive-green. Length, about 110; wing, 47; 
tail, 44; culmen from base, 16; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 14. 
Female.—Above olive-green; wing-feathers and rectrices dark brown 
edged with olive-green; bases of the rectrices with a wash of reddish 
brown; below white, washed with light olive on the breast and with 
pale yellow on the abdomen and under tail-coverts. Length, 89; wing, 
42; tail, 25; culmen from base, 14; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 13. 
“Ten males average: Length, 111; wing, 46; tail, 46; cuimen, 17; 
tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 12. Ten females, length, 87; wing, 
