AXTHKEPTES. 659 



671. ANTHREPTES CHLORIGASTER Sharpe. 



GREEN-BELLIED SUNBIRD. 



Anthrcptes chlorigaster SHARPE, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2d. ser. Zool. (1877), 1, 

 342; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 100. 



Anthothreptes malaccensis GADOW, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 122 

 (part). 



Basilan (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Lubang (Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Cebu (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Masbate (Steere Exp., 

 Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Good- 

 fellow) ; Negros (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester}; Panay 

 (Bourns & Worcester); Romblon (Bourns & Worcester); Sibuyan (Bourns & 

 Worcester, McGregor) ; Tablas (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Tawi Tawi 

 (Bourns & Worcester, Everett) ; Ticao (McGregor). 



Male. Crown, mantle, and sides of neck metallic green changing to 

 amethystine; back, rump, tail-coverts, and lesser wing-coverts metallic 

 violet-blue; chin and throat liver-brown, bordered on each side by a 

 narrow line of metallic green and violet-blue; remainder of under parts 

 greenish yellow brightest in the middle of breast and abdomen; pectoral 

 tufts lemon-yellow; wings blackish; primaries and secondaries edged 

 with olive-green; alula and greater and median coverts burnt sienna; 

 rectrices black, edged with metallic green which changes to amethystine. 

 A male from Lubang measures: Wing, 71; tail, 46; culmen from base, 

 20; bill from nostril, 16.5 ; tarsus, 18. A male from Sibuyan, wing, 71 ; 

 tail, 50 ; culmen from base, 22 ; bill from nostril, 17 ; tarsus, 19. 



Female. Above tea-green; below apple-green; center of breast and 

 abdomen yellower; wings and tail dark brown, the feathers edged with 

 dull golden olive. Bill shorter than in the male. A female from Basi- 

 lan, wing, 66; tail, 42; culmen from base, 19; bill from nostril, 14; 

 tarsus, 18. 



"Ten males from Basilan average: Length, 129; wing, 69; tail, 45; 

 culmen, 20 ; tarsus, 17 ; middle toe with claw, 26. Nine females, length, 

 127 ; wing, 66 ; tail, 42 ; culmen, 20 ; tarsus, 17 ; middle toe with claw, 21. 

 Iris brownish red ; legs and feet brownish to yellowish olive ; nails black ; 

 bill dark brown to black. Food, in three cases, seeds.' 7 (Bourns and 

 Worcester MS.) 



672. ANTHREPTES MALACCENSIS (Scopoli). 



BROWN-THROATED SUNBIRD. 



Certhia malaccensis SCOPOLI, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1786), 2, 91. 

 Anthreptes malaccensis SHELLEY, Monogr. Nectarin. pt. 6 (1878), 315, pi. 



101, fig. 2; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 100. 

 Anthothreptes malaccensis GADOW, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 122 



(part); GATES, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 344, fig. 98 (bill 



enlarged ) . 



Balabac (Everett); Calamianes ( M cGregor d Worcester); Palawan (Steere, 

 Everett, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino, White) ; 

 Sibutu (Everett}; Sitanki (Bartsch). Cochin China, Malay Peninsula, Siam, 

 Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Flores. 



