42 Lord Walden on the Sun-birds 



Mr. Moore has a remark on Muller's figure of the female 

 of this species (Cat. Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 740). Lesson's type- 

 specimen exist( d in 1853 in the Paris Museum^ and [fide Pu- 

 cheran, /. c.) was brought from Sumatra by Duvaucel in Sep- 

 tember 182L Thus the Sumatran, Javan, and Arracanese race 

 have each had a separate title conferred on them. They do not 

 differ specifically. 



30. Nectarophila grayi (Wallace), P. Z. S. 1861, p. 479, 

 "Menado." (Plate I. fig. 2.) 



A representative form of N. brasiliana, apparently restricted 

 to Celebes. Of the five species of Nectarinice recorded as in- 

 habiting that interesting island, three belong to Indo-Malayan 

 genera, one to the widely-spread genus Arachnechthra, and one 

 to the Austro-Malayan group Chalcostetha. Three species are 

 peculiar to Celebes, two of which, jE. flavostriata and N. grayi, 

 possess Lido-Malayan, and the other, Chalcostetha jjorphyrolcEma, 

 Austro-Malayan affinities. One of the foreign species, A. malac- 

 censis, is an Lido-Malayan form ; the other, A. frenata, is a 

 widely-diff'used Australian species. 



Mr. AVallace possesses an example of what appears to be the 

 young male of a sixth species from Celebes. It has the edgings 

 of the quill-feathers and most part of the upper surface of the 

 rectrices dull red. 



31. Nectarophila sperata,(L.), S. N. ed. xii. p. 186, no. 13, 

 " Philippines '^ (1766), ex Briss. no. 27. 



Certhia philippensis pu7-purea, Briss., Orn. iii. p. 655, no. 27, 

 t. 31. f. 2c?, 3$, '^ns. Philippens." (1760), descr. orig. 



Grimpereau des Philippines, Bufi"., PI. Eul. t. 246. i.\ S , 

 2$. 



Certhia jugularis, P. L. S. Miiller, Natursyst. Anhang, p. 98, 

 no. 29 (1776), ex Buff. 



Troisieme Grimj)ereau de I'lsle de Luqon, Sonn., Voy. Nouv. 

 Guin. p. 63, t. 30, f. D, d adult., descr. orig. 



Certhia chalyhea, Scop., Fl. et Faun. Insub. ii. p. 91, no. 68 

 (1786), ex Sonn. t. 30. f. D. 



Certhia sperata, L., var. /S, Gm., S. N. i. p. 477, no. 13, ex 

 Sonn. ; var. 7, Lath., Ind. Orn. i. p. 283, no. 8, ex Gm. 



