48 Lord Walden on the Sun-birds 



Certhia lepida, Sparrni., ap. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 298, no. 60, 

 ex Sonn. (nee Sparrm.). 



Nectarinia lepida, (Lath.), Temm. PL Col. livr. xxi. t. 126, 

 f. 1, 2, 6 2, "Java.^^ 



Cinnyris lepidus, (Lath.), Vieill., Galerie, i. p. 291, t. 177. 



C.javanica, Horsf., Swains., Zool. Illus. 1st ser. iii. t. 121. 



Anthreptes lepida, (Lath.), Wallace, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 343, 

 " Sula Islands, Celebes.^' 



Cinnyris lepidus, Lesson, Manuel, ii. pp. 33 & 58. 



a /-M/coffi^, Vieill., Enc. Meth. Ois. p. 600, " Les Grandes 

 Indes," 6 adult. (1823), descr. orig. 



Hah. Java, Sumatra, Borneo,, Malacca (S. Miiller) ; Celebes 

 (Miiller, Wallace) ; Sula Islands, " does not reach the Moluccas " 

 (Wallace) ; Ai-racan, Tcnasserira (Blyth) ; Labuan (Motley and 

 Dillwyn) ; Banjermassing (Sclater, P.Z. S. 18G3, p. 220) ; Flores 

 (Wallace); Siam (Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 151); Cambodia (Mus. 

 nostr. $ ) . 



Banjermassing, Flores, Malaccan, and Javan examples in my 

 collection in no way differ. The bird figured by Temminck as 

 the female I believe to have been a young male. The female 

 seems to have the entire under surface of an uniform tint of 

 yellow ; whereas in the young male, whether with or without 

 indications of the metallic plumage, the chin, throat, and upper 

 breast are dirty white, contrasting w^ith the clean greenish-yellow 

 of the remainder of the lower plumage. These phases of 

 plumage are analogous to what are found in N. zeylonica. 



39. Chalcoparia singalensis, (Gm.), S. N. i. p. 964, no. 86, 

 1788, ex Brown ; Walden, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 543. 



Green Warhler, Brown, Zool. 111. p. 82, t. 32. f. 2, descr. orig. 



Certhia lepida, Sparrm., var. ^, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 298, 

 no. 60, ex Syn. Supp. i. p. 131, sect. 2, " Malacca,^^ descr. orig. 



Nectarinia phcenicotis, Temm., PI. Col. livr. xviii. 1. 108. f. 1, d* j 

 *' Java, Sumatra " (May 22, 1824) ; op. cit. livr. Ixv. t. 388. f. 2, 

 2 (?) ; S. Miiller & Schl., Verb. Nat. Gesch. Ned. Overz. Bez. 

 Zool. Aves, p. 63. 



Anthreptes rectirostris, (Shaw), Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 

 X. p. 925, " Moulmein." 



