CINNYRIS. 651 



15 mm. by 12 mm. Nest attached to the under side of a climbing fern 

 about 8 feet [2 A meters] from the ground." (Grant and Whitehead.) 



662. EUDREPANIS JEFFERYI Grant. 

 LUZON SUNBIRD. 



Eudrepanis jefferyi GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn, Club (1894), 3, 1; Ibis (1895), 

 111, pi. 5, fig. 2; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 229 (nest, feeding habits) ; 

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



Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor}. 



Male. Differs from the male of E: pulcherrima in having the outer 

 webs of secondaries metallic green instead of olive-green and entire outer 

 webs of primaries blackish brown with traces of metallic green. Bill, 

 legs, and nails black. Length, 95 ; wing, 50 ; tail, 27 ; culmen from base, 

 20.5; bill from nostril, 16; tarsus, 14. 



Female. Above olive-green, darker and browner on the crown; rump 

 lemon-yellow; under parts pale yellowish; grayer on chin and throat; 

 wing-feathers blackish brown, edged with olive-green; rectrices blackish 

 brown, tipped with dirty white, and narrowly edged with metallic green. 

 Wing, 46 ; tail, 27 ; culmen from base, 19 ; bill from nostril, 15 ; tarsus, 15. 



663. EUDREPANIS DECOROSA McGregor. 



BOHOL SUNBIRD. 



Eudrepanis decorosa MCGREGOR, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 330. 

 Bohol (McGregor). 



Male. Similar to the male of E. jefferyi, but metallic color on 

 secondaries and wing-coverts steel-blue instead of green; rump-patch and 

 under parts pale sulphur-yellow; red on chest reduced to a few small 

 spots. Bill, legs, and nails black. Length, 89; wing, 45; tail, 24; 

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



Female. Similar to the female of E. jefferyi, but the rump-patch 

 sulphur-yellow. Wing, 44; tail, 22; culmen from base, 18; bill from 

 nostril, 14.5 ; tarsus, 13. 



Genus CINNYEIS Cuvier, 181T. 



Bill and head about equal in length; tail moderately long, nearly 

 square, and extending beyond the folded wings; nasal opercles covered 

 with short feathers. Males with chin, throat, and fore breast usually 

 metallic colored, or at least of a different color from the lower breast 

 and abdomen; females with no metallic colors and the under parts light 

 yellow or green. 



