112 THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE ON [Jan. 15, 



$ . Entire upper surface, wing-coverts, and surface of closed 

 wing uniform pure olive-green, which colour encircles the eye and 

 covers the sides of the neck. Space before the eye, cheeks, sides of 

 throat, and the upper breast grey. Lower breast, abdomen, flanks, 

 and under tail-coverts the same grey washed faintly with olive-green, 

 the mesial line being albescent. Chin and throat white, slightly 

 greyish, forming a broad well-defined greyish white stripe, com- 

 mencing at the chin and descending to the breast. Axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts pure silky white. Remiges and rectrices dark 

 brown, margined with the olive-green hue of upper plumage. 

 Wing 2' 12 inches, tail 125, tarsus - 62, culmen 0'37- 

 Since I described this species (I. c.) I have received the male, which 

 in no way differs. 



32. Nectarophila sperata (122). 



[Dinagat, c? , June ; b, $ : iris brown ; bill very dark brown ; 

 legs black, c, June : iris dark brown ; bill black, mandible brown ; 

 legs black, d, S (juv.), June: iris dark brown, e, Nipah, 3, 



July.] 



I cannot separate example d ( S juv.) from examples b and c ( $ ). 

 A slight supercilium, chin, throat, cheeks, and whole lower surface 

 pale uniform greenish-yellow, above olive-green. They differ from 

 a supposed female, ex Surigao, described (P. Z. S. 1877, p. 830) by 

 having the chin, throat, and cheeks uniformly coloured with the 

 breast and abdomen, but agree in the ruddy colouring of the wing 

 when closed. A fourth example (sex not stated on label) is undis- 

 tinguishable from the Surigao female previously described (I. c.) . 



33. Arachnechthra jugularis (123). 

 [Dinagat, $ , June.] 



» 34. ^Ethopyga dtjbia, n. sp. 



[Dinagat, cJ , June : iris yellow-brown ; bill brown ; legs dark 

 grey ; feet ochreous. b, c? , June : bill and legs very dark brown, 

 c, $ , June : iris bright Indian-red ; bill black ; legs light brown.] 



$ (juv. ?). Above, wing-coverts, and exposed surface of quills 

 olive-green. Uropygium bright sulphur-yellow, forming a broad 

 yellow band. Rectrices black, edged with olive ; laterals tipped 

 with pale yellow-olive. Feathers of the lower surface ashy at their 

 base, and all tipped pale yellow ; lores the same ; cheeks rather 

 albescent-ashy. Under wing- coverts white ; carpal edge very pale 

 yellow. Quills dark brown. 



$ . Like the male above described. 



The three examples on which this species is founded are difficult 

 to distinguish, by their plumage alone, from jE. bella 2 vp l 6 



