ZBTHOPYGA. 647 
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43; tail, 29; culmen, 16; tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 12. Cala- 
mianes birds are very slightly smaller, but are otherwise identical. Shot 
at a height of 760 meters on Mount Pulgar in Palawan, where it was 
abundant.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
656. ATHOPYGA BELLA Tweeddale. 
TWEEDDALE’S SUNBIRD, 
Aithopyga bella TwrEEpDALE, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 537: 
SHELLEY, Monogr. Nectarin. (1879), pts. 9 & 10, 77, pl. 25; Gapow, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 29; Grant, Ibis (1897), 236; GRANT and 
WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 242 (eggs); WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 229 
(nest) ; McGregor and WorcESsTER, Hand-List (1906), 93. 
Mindanao (Everett, Celestino); Samar (Steere Exp., Whitehead). 
“Male.—Chin, throat, breast, and uropygium bright sulphur-yellow ; 
forehead, vertex, minor carpal coverts, upper tail-coverts, and upper 
surface of rectrices dark metallic green; occiput, nape, and wing-coverts 
dark olive; cheeks, lores, behind the eye, sides of head and ‘neck, inter- 
scapulars, and back deep blood-red; quills almost black, margined with 
dark olive; abdomen, flanks, vent, under tail-coverts, and under wing- 
coverts silky white, more or less tinged with pale yellow, especially on 
the mesial line, under tail-coverts, and carpal edge; a few blood-red 
feathers on the upper breast; a metallic violet spot on side of head; a 
narrow line of deep blood-red runs along the rami of the mandible; a 
‘ bold metallic moustache springs from the base of the mandible, and 
descends the sides of the neck; the upper half violet, the lower half 
green. Wing, 42.6; tail, 36.5; culmen, 13; tarsus, 13. 
“Female.—Above, wing-coverts, and edgings to quills olive-green; 
uropygium bright sulphur-yellow as in the male; space before the eye, 
cheeks, ear-coverts, chin, throat, and upper breast gray, 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. Wing, 41; tail, 28; culmen, 13; 
tarsus, 13.” (T'weeddale.) 
Three fresh eggs of this sunbird collected by Whitehead near Paranas, 
Samar, July 19, 1895, are thus described: “Shape ovate. Ground-color 
pale pinkish white, a heavily, marked irregular zone of dull red toward 
the larger end, and some scattered spots and blotches of the same color 
over the rest of the shell, with here and there underlying brown markings. 
Measurements 14 mm. by 10 mm. 
“The nest built by this sunbird differs considerably from that made 
by 4. magnifica, being a long bag-shaped pocket, with a loose dangling 
