650 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
661. EUDREPANIS PULCHERRIMA (Sharpe). 
MINDANAO SUNBIRD. 
Athopyga pulcherrima at ae se (1876), 14, 297; Gapow, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 31. 
Budrepanis pulcherrima SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 
341; SHELLEY, Monogr. Nectarin. pt. 3 (1877), 83, pl. 28; Grant and 
WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 242 (eggs) ; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 229; 
McGrecor and WorcEstTER, Hand-List (1906), 99. 
Althopyga dubia TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 112. 
Basilan (Steere, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Dinagat (Everett) ; Leyte 
(Steere Exp., Whitehead); Mindanao (Celestino); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns 
& Worcester, Whitehead). 
Male.—Forehead and crown to opposite center of eye metallic french- 
blue; hind crown, sides of neck, and back olive-green; lower back and 
rump lemon-yellow; a patch above ear-coverts metallic greenish blue; 
lores, cheeks, and jaw dull black; under parts rich lemon-yellow becoming 
much paler on lower abdomen, flanks, and crissum; a large scarlet patch 
on chest partly broken up by the yellow tips of the feathers; wing-quills 
blackish brown, externally edged with olive-green and on inner webs 
with white; secondary-coverts black, broadly tipped with rich metallic 
green; alula and primary-coverts black, narrowly edged or tipped with 
metallic green ; upper tail-coverts and middle pair of rectrices rich metallic 
green, the other rectrices black, edged with metallic green; lining of wing 
white. A male from Basilan measures: Length, 89; wing, 45; tail, 23.5; 
culmen from base, 19; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 14. 
“Female.—Without any metallic colors; upper parts olive, inclining 
to ashy brown on the crown and sides of the head ; tail dark brown, washed 
with olive, tipped with white; under wing-coverts and inner edge of quills 
white; rest of under parts dingy yellowish. Wing, 46 tail, 25; tarsus, 
14.” (Gadow.) 
“Three male birds average: Length, 95; wing, 48; tail, 23; culmen, 
21; tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 13. Two females, length, 85; 
wing, 43; tail, 23; culmen, 21; tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 12. 
Iris brownish red; legs, feet, and nails black; bill black. Birds from 
Basilan, however, have Iegs and feet brown. Food insects.” (Bourns 
and Worcester MS.) 
Whitehead collected three slightly incubated eggs of this short-tailed 
sunbird near Paranas, Samar, on July 26, 1896. They are described as 
follows: “Shape ovate. Ground-color dull pink, rather thicky mottled 
all over with pinkish gray, especially towards the larger end, the markings 
forming a rather distinct zone round the pole. The over-markings are 
small rounded spots and dots of deep vandyke-brown. Measurements 
