of the Indian and Australian Regions. 25 



Liverpool, and identified with this species by Mr. Blyth (Ibis, 



1865, p. 30), must be regarded as doubtful {conf. Swinhoe, Ibis, 



1866, p. 129). This species has yet to be compared with A.ju- 

 gularis, from the Philippines, but appears to differ at least in 

 possessing a maroon transverse pectoral band. 



4. Arachnechthra rhizophor^, Swinhoe, Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 4th ser. iv. p. 436, "Hainan" (1 Dec. 1869) . 



Closely allied to A. flammaxillaris ; but possessing a steel- 

 blue frontal patch. 



5. Arachnechthra pectoralis, (Horsf.), Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. 

 p. 167,cS,2> "Java" (1820), descr. orig. 



Nedarinia eximia, Tern., PI. Col. livr. 23, t. 138. f. 1, 2, d" , $ , 

 "Java" (July 26,1823), descr. orig.; S.Mviller & Schl., Verh. Nat. 

 Gesch. Ned. Overz. Bez. Zool. Aves, p. 61, no. 10 [1846"^]. 



Cinnyris ornatus, Less., Diet. Sc. Nat. vol. 1. p. 15, cJ, $ 

 (1827), ex Temm. t. 138, f. 1, 2. 



Cinnyris luteoventer, Less., Tr. p. 298, no. 29, $, " Sunda 

 Islands" (1831), descr. orig. {fide Pucheran, Rev. Mag. Zool. 

 1853, p. 488). 



Nedarinia pedoralis, Horsf., Jard., Nat. lib. xxxvi. pp. 226, 

 266, t. 25. f. 1, (^, "Java." 



Hah. Java, Sumatra, inland as well as on the coast, in enclosures 

 and bushes, never on the mountains (Miiller) ; Nicobars (Blyth, 

 J. A. S. B. 1846, p. 370; Von Pelzeln, Novara, Aves, p. 52); 

 Andamans (Tytler, Ibis, 1867, p. 322); Banjermassing (Motley 

 fide Sclater) ; Lombok, Flores (Wallace) ; Labuan (Motley & 

 Dillwyn). 



Both Blyth and Moore state that this species is found in the 

 Malay Peninsula. I have never seen an authentic Malayan spe- 



* [Mr. G. R. Crotch, whose useful determination of the dates of pub- 

 lication of the several livraimns of the ' Planches Coloriees ' we have 

 already printed (Ibis, 1868, pp. 499, 500), has kindly informed us that 

 the ornithological plates in the ' Zoologie ' of the gi'eat Dutch work cited 

 in the text, with the exception of those representing the species of Pittm 

 (published in 1839-40) appeared in 1846 ; but the descriptions of the spe- 

 cies of Nectarinice in the volume containing the ' Land en Volkenkunde ' 

 appeared in 1843. We have accordingly added those dates to Lord 

 Walden's text.— Ed.] 



