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p. 324 ; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. ix. p. 114. Nectarinia simplex, S. Mull. 

 Natuurl. Gesch. Land-en. Volkenk. p. 173. Nectarinia frontalis, Blyth, 

 J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 558 (1845). Arachnethra simplex, Walden, Ibis, 1870, 

 p. 31. Anthreptes xanthochlora, Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 320. Arachnophila 

 simplex, Salvad., Nect. Born. p. 172; Tweed., Ibis, 1877, p. 301. The 

 PLAIN-COLOURED SUN-BIRD. 



Forehead metallic green or blue black ; rest of the upper plumage, includ- 

 ing the wing coverts, olive yellow ; tail deeper yellow ; quills brown, edged with 

 olive yellow ; feathers in front of the eye dusky ash colour ; cheeks and ear 

 coverts olive, tinted with ashy ; chin, throat and foreneck greenish ashy ; rest 

 of lower plumage dull oily yellow ; pectoral tufts sulphur yellow ; under 

 surface of the quills ashy brown ; under wing coverts white, washed with 

 yellow. Bill blackish brown ; base of mandible pale. 



Length. 4-65 inches ; wing 2-45 ; tail 2 ; tarsus 0-65 ; culmen 0-55. 



The adult female is similar in plumage, but without the metallic forehead or 

 pectoral tufts. 



Hab. Malay Peninsula, from Mergui, Southern Tenasserim to Singapore ; 

 also Sumatra and Borneo. Nothing is known of its habits. 



746. Anthothreptes phcenicotiS (Temm.), Gadoiv, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. ix. p. 121. Nectarinia phoenicotis, Tern., PI. Col. 108, fig. i, 388, fig. 2. 

 Cinnyris phoenicotis, Less.) Man. d' Orn. ii. p. 38 ; id., Traite d'Orn. i. p. 298. 

 Anthreptes phoenicotis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 979 ; Shelley, Monogr. 

 Nect. p. 326, pi. 105. Chalcoparia singalensis, Cab. Mus. Hein i. p. 103 ; 

 Reichb., Handbk. Scansorice, p. 304; Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 86; Armstrong, 

 Str. F. 1876, p. 313. Chalcoparia phoenicotis, Bp. C. A. xxxix. p. 265 ; 

 Blyth and Walden, B. Burm. p. 142; Tweedd ale, Ibis, 1877, p. 303. An- 

 threptes singalensis, Wald., P. Z. S. 1866, p. 543 ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 28 ; 

 Dates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 326. Chalcoparia singalensis, Wald., Ibis, 1870, 

 p. 48; Hume and Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 189; Hume, Str. F. 1879, 

 p. 90. The RUBY-CHEEKED SUN-BIRD. 



The whole upper plumage rich metallic green, including the least and 

 median series of wing coverts and broad margins to the greater wing coverts 

 and tail feathers ; remainder of the wings and tail black ; the quills more or 

 less glossed with metallic violet on their outer webs; sides of the head includ- 

 ing the upper eyelid ruby-copper, margined beneath by a band of metallic 

 lilac shaded with steel blue ; lores blackish ; chin, throat and fore part of the 

 chest fawn-colour or ferruginous buff ; abdomen, sides of the body, vent and 

 under tail coverts yellow ; under wing coverts pale yellow. Bill black ; gape 

 orange yellow ; mouth yellow ; iris lake red ; legs yellowish green. 



Length. 4*2 to 4-4 inches; wing 2-1 ; tail r6; tarsus 0*65 ; culmen 0-5. 



