370 KECTAKINIIDJE. 



907. Aradmothera aurata. The Smaller Streaked Spider-hunter. 



Arachnothera aurata, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv, p. 478 (1855) ; Hume, 

 S. F. iii, p. 85 j Blyth $ Walden, Birds Burm. p. 140 ; Shelley, 

 Mon. Nect. pp. xlix, 351 , pi. 112 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 174 ; 

 Hume, Cat. no. 223 bis j Gadmo, Cat. B. M. ix, p. 105 ; Oates, 

 B. B. i, p. 328 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. (2) vii, p. 395. 



Coloration. Resembles A. magna very closely. Differs in being 

 smaller and in having the striations on both the upper and lower 

 plumage much narrower and almost or quite absent on the lower 

 back. 



Bill black, the margins of the lower mandible yellow ; mouth 

 yellow ; iris brown ; eyelids plumbeous ; legs orange-yellow ; claws 

 yellow. 



Length about 6-5 ; tail 1-8 ; wing 3 to 3-4 ; tarsus -8 ; bill from 

 gape 1*6. 



Distribution. Confined to Pegu. This species is found through- 

 out the Pegu hills and it has also been procured both at Thayetmyo 

 and Toungngoo. It is also recorded from the Karen hills east of 

 the latter town. The late Captain Beavan is said to have procured 

 this bird at Kyodan on the Salween river. 



908. Arachnothera modesta. The Grey-breasted Spider-hunter. 



Anthreptes modesta, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 105. 



Arachnothera modesta (Eyton}, Hume, S. F. iii, p. 85 ; Hume fy 



Dav. S. F. vi, p. 176 ; Shelley, Mon. Nect. pp. xlix, 1, 353, pi. 113 ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 224 bis ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix, p. 107 ; Oates, 



B. B. i. p. 329. 



Coloration. The whole upper plumage and wing-coverts bright 

 yellowish green, the feathers of the head dark-centred ; quills dark 

 brown, broadly edged with the colour of the back, the tertiaries 

 almost wholly of this colour ; sides of the neck and the upper part 

 of the ear-coverts olive-green ; cheeks, the lower portion of the ear- 

 coverts, chin, throat, and fore neck ashy green, obscurely streaked 

 with brown ; remainder of the lower plumage ashy green, paler on 

 the abdomen, and the under tail-coverts tipped yellowish white ; 

 median tail-feathers yellowish green, broadly tipped with black ; 

 the others blackish, the basal two thirds of the outer webs yellowish 

 green, and each of the feathers with a spot of white near the tip on 

 the inner web; edge of the wing bright yellow: under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries pale yellow. 



Legs and feet reddish ochre to pale reddish brown ; the upper 

 mandible black, the lower reddish horny to pale reddish brown ; 

 irides brown (Davison). 



Length 7 ; tail 2-2 ; wing 3-5 ; tarsus -75 ; bill from gape 1-5. 



Distribution. Tenasserim from the base of Muleyit mountain to 

 Malawiin, extending to Cochin China, the Malay peninsula and 

 the islands. 



