238 NECTARINIID^E. 



than the wing ; tarsus covered with scales, males with metallic colours, and 

 sometimes with pectoral tufts. 



744. Anthothreptes hypogrammica (S. Mull.), Bp. Consp. 



Av. i. p. 409, No. 2; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 461, No. 186; Hume and 

 Dav., S/r. F. vi. p. 178 (1878) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 260; Shelley, Monogr. 

 Nect. p. 305, pi. 98; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 90; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. 

 p. 323. Nectarinia hypogrammica, .S" Mull., Natural Gesch. Lands en Vol~ 

 kenk, p. 173 ; Low, Sarawak, p. 410; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 125, 

 No. 1364; Gadow, Cat.B. Br. Mus. ix. p. 113. Anthreptes nuchalis, Blyth, 

 J. A. S. B. xii. p. 980 (1843). Arachnethra hypogrammica, Walden, Ibis, 

 1870, p. 30. Arachnethra macularia, Walden, Ibis, 1872, p. 381. The 

 BANDED SUN-BIRD. 



Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the head and neck, back, scapulars and 

 wing coverts yellowish olive ; a collar on the back of the neck, lower back, 

 rump and upper tail coverts steel blue ; quills dark brown, broadly edged 

 with olive yellow; tail -dark brown, the feathers narrowly edged with olive 

 yellow, and the two or three outer ones on each side tipped with white ; 

 under surface of the body pale yellow, rather whitish on the chin r and each 

 feather with a broad olive brown band down the centre, forming broad streaks 

 on the chin, throat, breast, abdomen and sides of the body ; vent, flanks and 

 under tail coverts uniform olive yellow; under surface of the wing dark 

 brown, the inner margins of the quills and the coverts white. Bill black ; 

 legs greenish brown ; irides brown. 



Length. $$ to 5-6 inches; wing 2'6 ; tail 2*1 ; tarsus 065 ; culmen 0-75. 



The female is a little smaller than the male, and has the same plumage, 

 except that the entire upper parts are yellowish olive with no metallic or steel 

 blue feathers. 



Hab. Southern Tenasserim, ranging down the Malayan Peninsula, 

 to Sumatra and Borneo. Davison found it in the extreme south of Tenasserim, 

 where, Gates says, it appears to be only a straggler. Miiller found it in 

 Sumatra and Borneo ; it has also been got by Cantor at Penang. According 

 to Hume and Davison's notes it is found in Tenasserim only to the south- 

 ward of Mergui ; thence it occurs, though everywhere a rare bird, southward 

 to Johore and Singapore. The same indefatigable labourers in the cause of 

 this branch of Natural History observes that in all its habits, mode of flight and 

 voice it is closely allied to Anthothreptes malaccensis, being more of an insect- 

 eater, than a honey-feeder, but unlike it, it affects forests and not gardens 

 except occasionally. 



745. Anthothreptes simplex (S. Hull.), Hume, Str. F. iii. 



p. 319, No. 232 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, P- ! ^ ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. 

 p. 188 (1878) ; Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 309, pi. loo ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. 



