32 Lord Waldeii on the Sun-birds 



" A single specimen only was obtained ; " yet two figures are 

 given in the plate cited ! The upper figure agrees with the 

 diagnosis. The lower differs by having the rump yellow. 

 It is not stated whence the subject of the lower figure was pro- 

 cured. This species does not appear to have been since ob- 

 tained. The figure resembles a female of ^. /ren«^a (Miill.). 

 Reichenbach (/. c.) has mixed up Arachnothera flavigastra, 

 (Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 105), from Malacca, with the New-Ire- 

 land bird, and united them under the title cited ! 



12. Arachnechthra SOLARIS, (Temm.), PI. Col. livr.58,t. 347. 

 f. 3, "Amboyna,'^ c?, May 21,1825; S.MiiUer & Schl.,Verh. Nat. 

 Gesch. Ned. Overz. Bez. Zool. Aves, p. 60, t. 8. f. 5, $ [1846] . 



Hub. Timor, Poeloe Samauw (Miiller) ; Timor, Flores (Wal- 

 lace). 



Miiller (/, c.) has shown that Temminck was in error when 

 he stated that his type-specimens came from Amboyna. This 

 species is a somewhat isolated form. The metallic part of its 

 plumage is green, as in N. osea, and the flame-colour of the axil- 

 laries is diffused over the entire under surface. 



13. iExHOPYGA MILES, (Hodgs.), lud. Rev. ii. p. 273, descr. 

 orig., d , $ , et juv., " Nipaul " (1837) . 



Certhia goalpariemis, Royle, 111. Him. Bot. ii. t. 7. f. 1, ^ 

 adult., "DeyraDoon" (1839). 



Cinmjris labecula, McClell., P. Z. S. 1839, p. 167, d" adult., 

 "Assam,''^ descr. orig. 



Nectarinia goaJpariensis, Royle, Jard., Nat. Lib. xxxvi. pp. 230, 

 267, t. 27, S adult., "Nipaul;" Blyth,;?ar/im., Cat. Mus. Calc. 

 no. 1351. 



Goulpourah Creeper, Lath., Gen. Hist. iv. p. 221, t. 74, "Goul- 

 pourah," ^ adult. 



McClelland's title is here added as a synonym on the authority 

 both of Blyth (/. c.) and of Moore (Cat. E. I. Mus. ii. p. 732) ; 

 yet no mention is made in McClelland's diagnosis of the yellow 

 rump. Moulmein and Tippera examples in my collection are 

 smaller than those from the Deyra-Doon and from Nipaul. Prom 

 Tippera, wing 2'12, tail 2'72, bill "57; from the Deyra-Doon, 

 wing 2*18, tail 3*18, bill "6. The Moulmein specimen is still 



