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only full and trustworthy account that has yet been published, 

 taken from a Philippine specimen obtained by Mr. Cuming, 

 the steel-blue plastron is intensely dark on the centre, but does 

 not extend so far down as in A. pectoralis, (Horsf.). Meyen, 

 most unaccountably, regarded the Philippine Arachnechthra as 

 the female of C sperata, L. 



8. Arachnechthra zENOBiA,(Less.),Voy.Coq.Zool, i. p. 679, 

 no. 104, t. 30. f. 3, <$ adult., " Soya Mountains, Araboyna," 

 (1826)^ descr. orig. 



Cinnyris clementice, Less., Diet. Sc. Nat. 1. p. 18 (1827), ex 

 Less. /. c. 



Nectarinia zenohia, (Less.), S. Miiller & Schl., Verb. Nat.Gesch. 

 Ned. Overz. Bez. Zool, Aves, p. 60 [1846]. 



the Sucrier bronze, Le Vaill., Ois. d'Afr. vi. p. 170, t. 297. f. 2, 

 " Africa'' ! 



Chalcostetha zenobia, (Less.), Reichenb., Handb. p. 286, 

 no. 663. 



Hub. Amboyna, not uncommon among the farm enclosures 

 and sparsely covered heights (Miiller) ; Ke, Bouru, Amboyna, 

 Ceram (Wallace) ; Dorey, New Guinea, Gilolo (G. E. Gray) . 



Lesson refers C. dementia to figure 2 of his plate above cited, 

 which represents Dicaeum erythrothorax $ . Bonaparte (Consp. 

 i. p. 409) cites figure 1 of the same plate, which represents D. ery- 

 throthorax c? . If the specimen from which Le Vaillant figured 

 his alleged female of Le Sucrier bronze was not manufactured, it 

 must have been one of A. zenobia, as suggested by M. J. Verreaux 

 to Prof. Sundevall in his remarks on Le Vaillant's bird (no. 297, 

 K. Vet, Akad. Handl. 1857). A specimen in my possession, ob- 

 tained from a large collection of birds sent from Queensland, and 

 consisting of authenticated Queensland species, represents a form 

 exactly similar to Ceram examples of A. zenobia (Less.), excepting 

 that it is smaller in its principal dimensions, and that it possesses 

 a steel-blue frontal patch. Thus this alleged Queensland bird 

 bears to A. zenobia the same relation that A. pectoralis (Horsf.) 

 does to A.frenata (S. Miiller). Can it be the one mentioned by 

 Mr. Ramsay as Nectarinia australis (Ibis, 1865, p. 85, no. 32) ? 



9. Arachnechthra hypogrammica, (S. Miiller), Verb. Nat. 



