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1198. (894) *Cyrtostomus lotenius, Loten’s Sunbird. 
Certhia lotenia Linn., S.N., I., p. 188, (1766), (Ceylon). 
Ceylon and S. India. 
1199. (895) Cyrtostomus asiaticus asiaticus. The Purple 
Sunbird. 
Certhia asiatica Lath., Ind. Orn., i., p. 288, (1790), (India)> 
(Gurgaon, C. India). 
The whole of India except area occupied by brevirostris 
and intermedia. ; 
1200. (895) Cyrtostomus asiaticus brevirostris. The Balu- 
chistan Purple Sunbird. 
Nectarinia (Arachnecthra) brevirostris Blanford, Ibis, 1873, 
p. 86, (Jalk, Baluchistan). 
Sind, Baluchistan, Afghanistan and E. Persia. 
1201. (895) Cyrtostomus asiaticus intermediu:, The Burmese 
Purple Sunbird. 
Arachnecthara intermedia Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 436, (Burma). 
Assam and Burma. 
1202. (896) Cyrtostomus brasiliana. Van Hasselt’s Sunbird. 
Certhia brasiliana Gmel., Sys. Nat., i., p. 474, (1788), (Brazil), 
(Java, Oberholser). 
Java and Singapore to Assam. 
1203. (897+) Cyrtostomus pectoralis pectoralis. The Malay 
Yellow-breasted Sunbird. 
Nectarinia pectoralis Horsf., Trans., Linn. Soc., xiti.. p. 167, 
(1821), (Java). 
Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Lombok, Flores, Nicobars and 
Malay Pen. to 8S. Tennasserim. 
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1204. (897) Cyrtostomus pectoralis blanfordi. The Kondol 
Yellow-breasted Sunbird. 
Stuart Baker Bull., B.O.C., xli., p. 71, (1921), (Kondol, Nicobars) 
Kondol Is. Nicobars. 
1205, (898) Cyrtostomus flammaxillaris flammaxillaris. 
The Burmese Yellow-breasted Sunbird. 
Nectarinia flammaxillaris Blyth, J.A.S.B., xiv., p. 557, (1845), 
(Tennasserim). 
South Burma, Cochin China, Siam and Malay Peninsula. 
* Cyrtostomus and Arachnecthra being identical generically the former name 
has priority. 
+ I can trace no differences between C. pectoralis pectoralis and C. kloss 
which are not purely individual. 
