CINNYRIS. 651 
15 mm. by 12 mm. Nest attached to the under side of a climbing fern 
about 8 feet [2.4 meters] from the ground.” (Grant and Whitehead.) 
662. EUDREPANIS JEFFERY! Grant. 
LUZON SUNBIRD,. 
Eudrepanis jefferyi GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 3, 1; Ibis 11895), 
111, pl. 5, fig. 2; Wurrenean, Ibis (1899), 229 (nest, feeding habits) ; 
McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 99. 
Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor). 
Male.—Differs from the male of 2. pulcherrima in having the outer 
webs of secondaries metallic green instead of olive-green and entire outer 
webs of primaries blackish brown with traces of metallic green. Bill, 
legs, and nails black. Length, 95; wing, 50; tail, 27; culmen from base, 
20.5; bill from nostril, 16; tarsus, 14. 
Female.—Above olive-green, darker and browner on the crown; rump 
lemon-yellow; under parts pale yellowish; grayer on chin and throat; 
wing-feathers blackish brown, edged with olive-green; rectrices blackish 
brown, tipped with dirty white, and narrowly edged with metallic green. 
Wing, 46 ; tail, 27; culmen from base, 19; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 15. 
663. EUDREPANIS DECOROSA McGregor. 
BOHOL SUNBIRD. 
Eudrepanis decorosa McGrecor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 330. 
Bohol (McGregor). 
Male.—Similar to the male of LH. jefferyi, but metallic color on 
secondaries and wing-coverts steel-blue instead of green; rump-patch and 
under parts pale sulphur-yellow; red on chest reduced to a few small 
spots. Bill, legs, and nails black. Length, 89; wing, 45; tail, 24; 
culmen from base, 19; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 14. 
Female.—Similar to the female of ZH. jefferyi, but the rump-patch 
sulphur-yellow. Wing, 44; tail, 22; culmen from base, 18; bill from 
nostril, 14.5; tarsus, 13. 
Genus CINNYRIS Cuvier, 1817. 
Bill and head about equal in length; tail moderately long, nearly 
square, and extending beyond the folded wings; nasal opercles covered 
with short feathers. Males with chin, throat, and fore breast usually 
metallic colored, or at least of a different color from the lower breast 
and abdomen; females with no metallic colors and the under parts light 
yellow or green. 
