650 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIHHS. 



661. EUDREPANIS PULCHERRIMA (Sharpc). 

 MINDANAO STTNBIRD. 



JEthopyga pulcherrima SHABPE, Nature (1876), 14, 297; GADOW, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 31. 

 Eudrepanis pulcherrima SHABPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 



341; SHELLEY, Monogr. Nectarin. pt. 3 (1877), 83, pi. 28; GRANT and 



WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 242 (eggs); WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 229; 



MCGREGOR and WOBCESTEB, Hand-List (1906), 99. 

 JEthopyga dubia TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 112. 



Basilan (Steere, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor)-, Dinagat (Everett)-, Leyte 

 (Bteere Exp., Whitehead) ; Mindanao (Celestino) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns 

 4 Worcester, Whitehead). 



Male. Forehead and crown to opposite center of eye metallic french- 

 blue; hind crown, sides of neck, and back olive-green; lower back and 

 rump lemon-yellow; a patch above ear-coverts metallic greenish blue; 

 lores, cheeks, and jaw dull black; under parts rich lemon-yellow becoming 

 much paler on lower abdomen, flanks, and crissum; a large scarlet patch 

 on chest partly broken up by the yellow tips of the feathers; wing-quills 

 blackish brown, externally edged with olive-green and on inner webs 

 with white; secondary-coverts black, broadly tipped with rich metallic 

 green; alula and primary-coverts black, narrowly edged or tipped with 

 metallic green ; upper tail-coverts and middle pair of rectrices rich metallic 

 green, the other rectrices black, edged with metallic green; lining of wing 

 white. A male from Basilan measures: Length, 89; wing, 45; tail, '.:>.-"> : 

 culmen from base, 19; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 14. 



"Female. Without any metallic colors; upper parts olive, inclining 

 to ashy brown on the crown and sides of the head; tail dark brown, washM 

 with olive, tipped with white ; under wing-coverts and inner edge of quills 

 white; rest of under parts dingy yellowish. Wing, 40 tail. 25; tarsu.-, 

 14." (Gadow.) 



"Three male birds average: Length, 95; wing, 48; tail, 23; culmen, 

 21; tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 13. Two females, length, 85; 

 wing, 43; tail, 23; culmen, 21; tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 12. 

 Iris brownish red; legs, feet, and nails black; bill black. Birds from 

 Basilan, however, have legs and feet brown. Food insects." (Bourns 

 and Worcester MS.) 



Whitehead collected three slightly incubated eggs of this short-tailed 

 sunbird near Paranas, Samar, on July 26, 1896. They are described as 

 follows: "Shape ovate. Ground-color dull pink, rather thicky mottled 

 all over with pinkish gray, especially towards the larger end, the markings 

 forming a rather distinct zone round the pole. The over-markings are 

 small rounded spots and dots of deep vandyke-brown. Measurements 



