652 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Species. 
a*, Chin, tnroat, and fore breast black or metallic colored, very distinet from 
the color of lower breast and ahgganen (males). 
b'. Breast bright red. 
c'.. Mantle imaroon-1 edie. see ee ree ee eee eee sperata (p. 652) 
co. Mantle, velwatyy blacks ie scat sactco ace teen ea er eee henkei (p. 653) 
b°. Breast and abdomen yellow, or orange and yellow. : 
c’. Metallic color on under surface confined to chin and middle of fore throat. 
d*, Forehead metallic steel-green; crown and nape yellowish olive-green, 
flagrans (p. 654) 
@. Forehead dark metallie purple; crown and nape dull red. 
guimarasensis (p. 655) 
ce. Metallic color of under surface covering entire chin, throat, and fore 
breast. 
d*, Tail not tipped with white; forehead and crown metallic green; mantle 
maroon-red; entire chin and throat metallic purple...... juliz (p. 654) 
ad’, Tail with a broad white tip; forehead and all the upper parts dull 
green; chin, throat, and fore breast metallic bluish black. 
e’, Posterior under parts yellow with no orange next the black fore 
DECRSE 5 82s eh Cr Ne Saad Sa Seek OTe Te jugularis (p. 656) 
e*°. Posterior under parts yellow with a large bright orange patch next 
the yblackmtorenbnreds tes. fetes 2 ea eee eee aurora (p. 658) 
@, Chin, throat, and breast yellow or greenish, never metallic, and not very 
different in color from the abdomen (females) .* 
b'. Light tip of tail gray, about 6 mm. in length on outermost pair of rectrices ; 
general color of under parts apple-green. 
{sperata (p. 652) 
| henkei (p. 653) 
c?, Primaries, secondaries, and greater coverts edged with light claret-brown, 
this color extending faintly across the back.........-....-..-...... julie (p. 654) 
b?. Light tip of tail white, about 10 mm. in length on outermost pair of 
jugularis (p. 656) 
aurora (p. 658) 
c’. Primaries and secondaries edged with dull orange-rufous. 
rectrices; general color of under parts gamboge-yellow.., 
664. CINNYRIS SPERATA (Linneus). 
RED-BREASTED SUNBIRD. 
Certhia sperata LINN US, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 186. 
Oinnyris speratus SHELLEY, Monogr. Nectarin. pt. 4 (1877), 131, pl. 43. 
Cinnyris sperata GAvow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 63; WHITEHEAD, 
Ibis (1899), 230; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 99. 
Siete colores, Spanish name in general use. 
Basiao, off Samar (Bartsch); Bohol (McGregor); Calamianes (Bourns € 
Worcester, McGregor) ; Cebu (Bourns & Worcester) ; Dinagat (Hverett) ; Guimaras 
(Steere, Steere Exp.) ; Leyte (Steere Exp., Whitehead); Lubang (McGregor) ; 
Luzon (Meyer, Whitehead, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate 
(Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Mindanao (Everett, Koch & 
Schadenberg, Celestino) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Hverett, 
McGregor) ; Negros (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay) ; 
Nipa (Everett); Palawan (Everett, Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns & 
Worcester, White) ; Panay (Bourns & Worcester); Polillo (McGregor) ; Romblon 
*J have not seen the females of C. guimarasensis and C. flagrans. 
