220 NECTARINIID^E. 



Gen. Chalcostetha. Cab. 



Bill of moderate length and cuvature ; tail graduated ; feathers of the back 

 and rump short and metallic coloured ; females plainly coloured. 



724. Chalcostetha insignis (yard.), Wald., Ibis, 1870, p. 44; 



Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. 319; Tweed, t. c. p. 302 ; id., P. Z. S. 1878, p. 621 ; 

 Hume and Damson, Sir. F. vi. p. 183 ; Shelley, Monog. Nect. p. 87, pi. 30 ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 89 ; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. ix. p. 13. Nectarinia 

 insignis, Jard., Monog. Sun-birds, p. 274; Gould., P. Z. S. 1865, p. 663. 

 Cinnyris macklotti, Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 408. Nectarinia pectoralis, 

 Temm. PL Col. 138, fig. 3. Chalcostetha insperata, Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. 320 

 (footnote). Chalcostetha pectoralis (Temm), Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 319. 

 MACKLOT'S SUN-BIRD. 



Forehead and crown metallic emerald green ; sides of the head and neck, 

 nape and upper back dull black; lesser and median wing coverts, 

 scapulars, lower back, rump and upper tail coverts metallic green, purplish 

 x>n the latter, according to the light ; tail blue, edged with metallic 

 green ; wing coverts and quills dark brown, edged narrowly with metallic 

 green or purple ; chin, throat and upper breast brilliant metallic golden 

 bronze, or according to light, brilliant purplish blue ; a narrow band bordering 

 this and the lower breast metallic violet purple ; axillary tufts bright yellow ; 

 nnder wing coverts and edge of wing black. 



The female has the crown and nape ashy brown ; sides of the head, chin, 

 throat and feathers round the eye grey j upper surface of the body dull olive 

 green ; tail pale black, all but the central feathers broadly tipped with 

 white ; quills brown, edged on their outer webs with dull olive green ; under 

 surface of the body from the breast yellow, paler on the vent and under tail 

 coverts ; legs and feet black. Bill black ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 5*5 inches ; wing 2 f i ? , 2-3 $ ; tail2'i; tarsus O*60; culmen 

 0-8. 



Hob. Cochin-China and Siam to^ Southern Tenasserim; Malay Penin- 

 sula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Phillipine Islands. A rare straggler at Malewoon 

 and Patoe Islands in Tenasserim. 



Gen. JEthopyga Cab. 



Bill longer than the head and curved ; the culmen ridged ; nostrils bare, 

 longitudinal and operculated ; the first primary short, tip of wing formed by 

 the 3rd, 4th, and 5th primaries ; tail graduated, the centre feathers in the 

 males projecting far beyond the lateral ones ; in the male, the crown and tail 

 have metallic colours, and the sides of the head and neck plain. 



