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subterminal spot on the inner webs of the four outer feathers on each side ; 

 sides of the head yellowish olive, shaded with ashy grey in front of the eyes 

 and on the lower portion of the cheeks and ear coverts ; under parts pale 

 olive shaded with ashy ; the feathers on the lower half of the throat with rather 

 indistinct dusky brown shaft-stripes ; under tail coverts dusky-olive broadly 

 edged with pale buff ; under surface of the wings dark brown ; upper mandible 

 black, the lower one reddish horn colour ; iris brown. 



Length. 6-5 to 7 inches ; wing 3-3; tail v\ ; tarsus 07 ; culmen 1-4. 



The female is similar in colour but a little smaller. 



Hab. Tenasserim from the extreme south up to the north-west spurs 

 of Mooleyit mountain, extending down the Malay Peninsula. Found also in 

 the islands of Sumatra and Java. 



743. Arachnothera chrysogenys, Temm., PL Col 388, fig. i ; 

 Diet. Class xv. p. 512; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 981 xv. p. 43; Bp. 

 Consp. Av. i. p. 410; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 106; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, 

 p. 107; Hume, Sir. F. 1875, pp. 85, 319; Sharpe* Ibis, 1877, p. 18; Tweed. , 

 torn. cit. p. 301 ; Shelley, Monogr. Nee/, p. 365, pi. 117 ; Hume and Dav., 

 Sir. F. vi. p. 177 ; Sharpe y Ibis, 1879, p. 261 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. 

 p. 331; Gadow y Cat. B. Br. Mus. ix. p. 108. Cinnyris longirostra, Horsf. t 

 (nee. Lath)., Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 169. Cinnyris chrysogenys, Less , Man* 

 d'Orn. ii. p. 31. The LESSER or YELLOW-EARED SPIDER-HUNTER. 



Upper surface of the body uniform dark olive green, with a yellowish tinge 

 on the wings and the tail ; space in front of and below the eye without 

 feathers ; a broad supercilium and the front of and lower half of the ear 

 coverts bright yellow ; remainder of the ear coverts olive ; throat and front of 

 the chest olive yellow, broadly but indistinctly streaked with yellow and dusky 

 olive ; under surface of the body and the under tail coverts bright yellow 

 slightly shaded on the sides with olive ; under wing coverts buff mottled with 

 whitish. Legs and feet fleshy white ; the bill darker horny brown ; the edges 

 of both mandibles to near the tip dirty yellow. 



Length. 6 to 7 inches; wing 3-5 ; tail 1-7; tarsus 075 ; culmen 1-65. 



Hab. Tenasserim from Mergui down to Malewoon, where Davison found it. 

 It ranges down the Malay Peninsula, and is found in the islands of Sumatra, 

 Java and Borneo. Common in Cochin China. According to Dr. Tiraud, 

 Mr. Davison, who got this species in Tenasserim, says of it that it affects gardens 

 more than any of the other species, less so about cocoanut groves and forest 

 trees. 



Gen. AnthothreptOS. Swains. 



Bill shorter than or equal to the rest of the head ; culmen and gonys rather 

 straight ; nostrils basal, operculated, exposed ; first primary short ; tip of wing 

 formed by 3rd, 4th and 5th primaries ; tail square or slightly rounded, shorter 



