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with feathers rounded at tip; under parts, including under tail-coverts, 

 yellow, whitish on middle of abdomen. Size considerably smaller than 

 male. Culmen, 18; wing, 48. 



''Young male in first plumage. Head, sides of throat, and upper 

 parts smoke-gray, washed on lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 with green; upper wing-coverts and exposed portion of outer webs of 

 quills olive-green; under parts, including stripe on middle of chin and 

 throat, smoke-gray washed with greenish yellow ; lining of wings white ; 

 tail-feathers pointed, similar to the adult but shorter and duller. Iris 

 brown; bill black, orange at base, yellow and orange inside; metatarsus 

 black; toes orange, dusky above. Older males soon grow to resemble 

 adults, the orange first showing in the middle of the breast, the flanks 

 and belly becoming yellow at the same time, the pectoral tufts and 

 richest coloring probably not appearing before the second year." 

 (M earns.) 



655. XETHOPYGA 8HELLEYI Sharpe. 



SHELLEY'S STJNBIRD. 



jEthopyga shelleyi SHARPE, Nature (1876), 14, 297; Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. 

 ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 342; SHELLEY, Monogr. Nectarin. (1877), pt. 3, 75; 

 (1880), pts. 11 & 12, pis. 24 & 25, fig. 1; GADOW, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 (1884), 9, 29; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 98. 



Balabac (Steere, Everett) ; Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Palawan 

 (Steere, Whitehead, Everett, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, 

 Gelestino, White). 



Male. Forehead, crown, long moustachial stripe, upper tail-coverts, 

 middle rectrices, and outer webs of remaining rectrices dark metallic 

 green when held away from the light, changing to dark blue when held 

 toward the light; occiput, mantle, and sides of head and neck maroon- 

 red; chin and a narrow line bordering the throat maroon-red; throat 

 and breast sulphur-yellow, the latter streaked with vermilion; abdomen 

 pale gray or white, washed in the middle with pale yellow; under tail- 

 coverts pale yellow ; back olive-green ; rump sulphur-yellow ; wing-feathers 

 blackish brown edged with olive-green. Length, about 110; wing, 47; 

 tail, 44; culmen from base, 16; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 14. 



Female. Above olive-green; wing-feathers and rectrices dark brown 

 edged with olive-green; bases of the rectrices with a wash of reddish 

 brown; below white, washed with light olive on the breast and with 

 pale yellow on the abdomen and under tail-coverts. Length, 89; wing, 

 42; tail, 25; culmen from base, 14; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 13. 



"Ten males average: Length, 111; wing, 46; tail, 46; cuimen, 17; 

 tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 12'. Ten females, length, 87; wing, 



