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deep steel-blue, with a purplish gloss, but not dark purple, the red extends farther 

 down, over the breast ; the flanks are dark greyish olive, more grey, not so dingy 

 olive ; the middle of the abdomen and under tail-coverts are much more yellowish. 



33. Cinnyris infrenata sp. nov. 



Cinnyris : i supra obscure olixaceus, capite saturatiore, bruunescentiore ; lineis 

 superciliaribus malaribusque nullis ; jugulo imrpm-ascente, lateribus chalybeis ; 

 abdomine toto flavissinio, subcaudalibus pallidioribus ; lateribus pectoris fasciculo 

 plumarum aurantio-flavo ornatis, pectore pro usu paullo aurantiaco tincto ; alis fuscis, 

 anguste olivaceo marginatis ; rectricibus nigris, tribus lateralibus utrinque plus 

 minusve albo terminatis ; subalaribus albis, sulphureo tinctis ; rostro pedibusque 

 nigris. Al. 53 — 55, caud. 34 — 37, rostr. 27 — 28i, metatars. 25 — 26 mm. ? supra 

 brunneo-olivacea, subtus gastraeo toto flavo, cauda alisque ut in mari. 



Hah. : In insulis Tukang-Besi dictis. 



Typus ex Tomia insula, No. 4419 Kiihn leg., in Mus. Triug. 



5 6S, 3 ? ?, Tomia, December 1901. (Nos. 4414, 4415, 4416, 4417, 4418, 

 4419, 4420, 4421). 



3 (?(?, Wantjee, December 1901. (Nos. 4458, 4459, 4460.) 



\ S,o ? ? , Kalidupa, December 1901 and January 1902. (Nos. 4589, 4590, 4591, 

 4592.) 



5 c?c?, 2 ? ?, Binongka, December 1901. (Nos. 4225, 4226, 4227. 4228, 4229, 

 4230, 4231.) 



This very interesting new species differs from all the forms of C frenata by the 

 entire absence of the yellowish su}ierciliary and malar stripes, and from the typical 

 G. frenata very mucli in the colour of the upper surface. The colour of the upper- 

 side is very dark olive, deepest on the head. In this respect it differs most from 

 typical frenata, which has an olive-yellow upperside, and is nearest to C. frenata 

 jjlateni from the jMakassar region, but still considerably darker, especially on the 

 head. It is larger than C. frenata. The breast and abdomen are deep yellow, often 

 more or less tinged with orange on the breast. The inner webs of the remiges are 

 margined with dusky white. The outermost pair of rectrices have large whitish 

 tips, varying in extent and generally clouded with brown, the second pair have tips 

 of less extent, the third only a narrow margin. The female, is very much like that 

 of C /. plateni, but darker above and below, and larger. 



In the absence of the yellowish superciUary and malar lines, Cinnyris juffularis 

 from the Philippine Islands comes very near to G. infrenata. Specimens from North 

 Luzon, first separated by Mr. Grant as G. obscurior, but afterwards united with 

 C. jugularis, are rather dark brownish and small, but very doubtfully distinct from 

 C. jiufularis. Our C infrenata is easily distinguished from C. jugularis, and even 

 from the dark birds from North Luzon, by its much darker, more brownish olive 

 upperside, and the entire absence of the more or less marked orange-brown band 

 bordering the metallic jugulum. (U. jiujularis and G. frenata differ in many 

 respects.) 



34. Zosterops flavissima sp. nov. 



Zoaterops supra ceraceo-Hava ; fronte et loris aureis, annulo jieriophthahnico 

 sericeo-albo, sub oculo macula iiarva nigrescente ; remigibus fuscis, pogoniis externis 

 ceraceo-flavo, internis albido marginatis; rectricibus atro-brunneis, anguste flavido 

 marginatis; gastraeo toto aureo-tlavo, lateribus vix viridi tinctis; rostri maxilla 



