CINNYRIS. 653 



(Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, 

 Whitehead, Bartsch) ; Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Siquijor 

 (Bourns d Worcester, Celestino) ; Tablas (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Ticao 

 (McGregor). 



Male. Held away from the light top of head and hind neck reddish 

 bronze, lower back, rump, and tail-coverts metallic green and amethystine ; 

 held toward the light, head and neck change to bronze-green ; back, rump, 

 and tail-coverts change to steel-green ; lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts dull 

 black; mantle, sides of neck, and wing-coverts dark maroon-red; chin, 

 throat, and chest metallic violet away from the light, changing to purple 

 when held toward the light; breast poppy-red; abdomen, thighs, flanks, 

 and crissum olive-green; the last washed with red in some specimens; 

 wing-feathers blackish, edged with maroon, a small metallic colored patch 

 at carpal joint; rectrices blackish, edged with metallic violet and green. 

 Iris brown ; bill, legs, and nails black. A male from Masbate measures : 

 Length, 102 ; wing, 50 ; tail, 29 ; culmen from base, 16 ; bill from nostril, 

 14; tarsus, 12. 



Female. Above light olive-green; feathers of head edged with gray; 

 below greenish yellow, brighter on abdomen, flanks, and crissum; wings 

 and tail blackish brown; primaries and secondaries edged with dull 

 orange-rufous on outer webs and with white on inner webs; rectrices 

 tipped with light gray. A female from Luzon, wing, 50 ; tail, 30 ; culmen 

 from base, 16 ; bill from nostril, 14 ; tarsus, 12. 



"Ten males from Palawan average: Length, 104; wing, 50; tail, 31; 

 tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 13; culmen, 20. Ten females, culmen, 

 19; wing, 47; tail, 28; tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 13. Iris dark 

 brown; bill, legs, and feet black. Called by natives of Palawan "sopra 

 daraga. 5 Breeding in Palawan in December; in Siquijor in February; 

 in Negros in January ; and in Samar in April." (Bourns and Worcester 

 MS.) 



665. CINNYRIS HENKEI Meyer. 

 HENKE'S SUNBIRD. 



Cinnyris henkei MEYER, Zeitschr. fiir Ges. Orn. (1884), 207, pi. 7. 



Cinnyris whiteheadi GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1894), 2, 1; Ibis (1894), 

 514, pi. 14, fig. 1; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 230 (distribution); MC- 

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



Leptocoma henkei DUBOIS, Syn. Av. (1902), 699. 



Sa-uit Sd-uit, Calayan. 



Babuyan Claro (McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Camiguin N. (McGregor) ; 

 Fuga (McGregor); Luzon ( Whitehead, McGregor). 



Male. Similar to C. sperata, but mantle, hind neck, and sides of 

 neck dull black ; quills and wing-coverts entirely black, except the metallic 

 green lesser coverts; abdomen, thighs, and crissum black, washed with 

 olive-green. A male from Calayan measures: Wing, 535; tail, 32; 

 culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 16; tarsus, 15. 

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