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20 and 21'5 ; tarsus 22. " Iris grey-brown ; feet slaty grey ; maxilla blackish ; 

 mandible mostly pale horn, flesh-colour at base." 



*3. Phylloscopus borealis (Bias.). 

 A large series shot in winter quarters. 



4. Cisticola cisticola (Temm.). 

 Three specimens. 



*5. Parus atriceps Horsf. 



Evidently common on the island. <? . " Iris deep brown ; feet slaty blue ; beak 

 black, pale at commissure." 



6. Dicaeum wilhelminae Bttttik. 



1892. D. w., Buttikofer in Notes Ley den Mus. XIV. p. 199. <? ad. "Iris 

 deep brown ; feet black ; maxilla black ; mandible black, pale brown at base." Two 

 undoubted males of this species. 



*7. ? Dicaeum mackloti Miill. & Schleg. 



Tfyere is a female from Sumba, like the female of D. mackloti, but of a paler 

 red on the upper tail-coverts. This paler red I find in young birds of D. mackloti 

 only, while the bird before me is evidently an bdultfemale ; bill black, except on base 

 of mandible. The red upper tail-coverts make it very improbable that it is the 

 unknown female of D. wilhelminae. 



*8. Prionochilus obsoletus (Mull. & Schleg.). 



One male from Sumba. " Eye pale ochraceous ; beak dark grey above, pale 

 bluish grey below." 



9. Anthreptes malaccensis celebensis (Shell.). 



There is a series of specimens of this species from Sumba which I cannot 

 separate from Celebes skins, though they should rather be A. m. chlorogaster. 



10. Cinnyris biittikoferi sp. nov. 



c? ad. Above greenish olive-grey ; upper wing-coverts, sides of head and neck, 

 like the back. Throat dark glossy purplish, metallic bluish green on the sides of 

 the throat and on the upper breast ; breast with an orange spot in the middle, just 

 below the bluish metallic colour ; rest of underparts yellow. Pectoral tufts bright 

 yellow. Under wing-coverts white. Tail black, with brownish tips, very narrow on 

 the central, very large on the lateral rectrices. Wing 54 56 mm. ; culmen 24 ; 

 tail 35 ; tarsus 14. 



? ad. Like the male, but the under surface yellow, throat pale yellow, sides of 

 breast greenish olive. 



This new species, of which Doherty sent several males &nd females, differs from 

 C. pectoralis in having a much longer bill, in being much less yellowish above, the 

 male having no metallic blue forehead, a paler abdomen, and a beautiful orange spot 



