652 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE lilKDS. 



fifpeefa*. 



'a 1 . Chin, tnroat, and fore breast black or metallic colored, very distinct from 



the color of lower breast and abdomen ( male> i . 

 6 1 . Breast bright red.- 



c 1 . Mantle maroon-red sperata (p. 652) 



c 2 . Mantle velvety black henkei ( p. 053 ) 



ft 2 . Breast and abdomen yellow, or orange and yellow. 



c\ Metallic color on under surface confined to chin and middle of fore throat. 

 d 1 . Forehead metallic steel-green; crown and nape yellowish olive green. 



flagrans (p. 054) 

 d-. Forehead dark metallic purple: crown and nape dull red. 



guimarasensis (p. 655) 

 c 2 . Metallic color of under surface covering entire chin, throat, and fore 



breast. 

 f/ 1 . Tail not tipped with white; forehead and crown metallic Linen; mantle* 



maroon-red; entire chin and throat metallic purple juliae (p. ;r,n 



d-. Tail with a broad white tip: forehead and all the upper parts dull 



green; chin, throat, and fore breast metallic bluish black. 

 e\ Posterior under parts yellow with no orange next the black fore 



breast jugularis (p. tJ.Ui ( 



6 s . Posterior under part*, yellow with a large bright orange putch next 



the black fore breast aurora (p. 058) 



a 2 . Chin, throat, and breast yellow or greenish, never metallic, and not very 

 different in color from the abdomen (females).* 



6 1 . Light tip of tail gray, about 6 mm. in length on outermost pair of rect rices; 



general color of under parts apple green. 



c 1 . Primaries and secondaries edited with dull orange-rufous I spei IP- 



1 henkei (p. <;.->:; i 



c 2 . Primaries, secondaries, and greater coverts edged with light claret -brown, 

 this color extending faintly across the hack juliae (p. Of>4) 



6 2 . Light tip of tail white, about 10 mm. in length on miirrnmsi pair >f 



rectrices; general color of under parts gamboge-vellow.J J 



(aurora i p. <;r>s i 



(i<;4. CINNYRIS SPERATA ( Lirina>us) . 

 RED-BREASTED SUNBIRD. 



Ccrthia speralu LINN.KIS. Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 186. 

 Cinnyris speratus Sui:i.i.i:v. Monogr. Xectarin. pt. 4 (IsTTi. 1 .'>!. pi. 43. 

 Cinnyris sperata GADOW, Cat. P.irds Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 63; WIHTKHKAD. 

 Ibis (1899), 230; MCGREGOR and WOKCKSTKK. Hand-List (1904 



Siete colores, Spanish name in geneial u-/. 



Basiao, off Samar (Bartsch) ; Boliol ( Mc(!re</<>r) ; Calamianes (lt<,urnn d- 

 Worcester, McGregor) ; Cebu (Bourn* d- \\'nn-> Ktrr ) ; Dinagat (Keerett) ; (Juimaras 



(Steere, Steere Exp.) ; Leyte (Stcrrc /:.//.. \\ 'hiti-ln ml) ; Lubang (McGregor); 

 Luzon (Meyer, Whitehead, McGregor); Marindutiue (>'// /.''/>.); Masbate 



(Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester. MrGn /(-/); Mindanao (Errrrtt. Koch & 

 Schadenberg, Celestino) ; Mindoro (8(r< /.'.//.. Bourn* a- \V<m-rxt> r. l-'.rrrett, 

 McGregor) ; Negros (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay) ; 

 Nipa (Everett); Palawan (A'rrrr//. riatrn. \Vlnh-ln-tnl. tftrrre Exp., Bourns & 

 Worcester, White) : Panay ( lionrns t (- Woncxtcr } ; Polillo (McGregor); Rornblon 



*I have not seen the females of C. yuimnniNriiNix and C. flay run*. 



