SUNBIRDS. 71 



p Bill longer and stronger ; breast paler ; 



pectoral tufts gamboge yellow; sides nn J nmnn l ni<t TTnn.if> 

 of metallic throat green anaamaniCUS, QUffle. 



2. Forehead metallic rhizophora, Swinb. 



(b) Non-metallic pectoral band 



absent or very indistinct. 



Forehead metallic pectoralis, Horsf. 



(B. — Breast orange red, oh black.J 



I. — Pectoral tufts paler than the 



bi'east. 



(a) Breast orange red Solaris, Temm. 



(b) Breast black zenobius, Less. 



Captain Shelley also gives a key to another genus in which we 

 are much interested, viz., sEthopyga. I am not quite sure that I 

 have in all respects correctly interpreted his views, and, if there 

 should prove to be any error in the subjoined table, / must 

 take the blame ; with all that is correct he may be justly 

 credited. 



Key to the genus sEthopyga* 



A. — Nape and back of neck 



NOT METALLIC. 



I. —Chin and throat not me- 

 tallic. 

 (a) No metallic moustachal 1 eximia, Horsf. Java. 



streak, 

 (bj With a metallic mousta- 

 chal streak 



*Mtliopyga Duivenbodei has the tail square and the wing-coverts metallic; it be- 

 longs to the genus Eudrepanis, it inhabits the Sanghir Islands. 2E- chalcopogon from 

 Borneo can only be siparaja. JE. lodoisice, Salvad, is mysticalis. JB. Beccarii, Salvad, ia 

 S juv, of flavostriata. JE. Waldeni {ante p. 51), it appears agrees in every feather 

 and measurement with the type of M. sanguinipectus with which Capt. Shelley baa 

 carefully compared it. Capt. Shelley kindly sends me a correct description of the type, 

 which I subjoin ; it will be seen how materially this differs from the original descrip- 

 tion, re-published, S. F.. III., p. 402. 



" Description of type of JEtliopyga sanguinipectus : — 



" <? ad. above : forehead, crown and back of the neck violet shaded steel blue ; sides 

 " of the head black ; upper back, sides of the neck and greater portion of the scapulars 

 *' very dark red ; lower back, crossed by a narrow pale yellow band ; lowest portion of 

 " the rump, upper tail-coverts, and two centre tail-feathers (with the exception of the 

 " ends of the latter), steel-blue, very faintly shaded with violet ; remainder of the tail, 

 " black ; the feathers partially edged with steel-blue ; wing-coverts and ends of the 

 " scapulars, black ; quills, dark brown, faintly edged with olive. Beneath chin, throat 

 " and crop, black, with the sides of the chin and the throat violet, shaded steel-blue ; front 

 " half of the chest, pale yellow, distinctly mottled with scarlet ; remainder of the breast, 

 " abdomen and under tail-coverts, pale yellowish olive ; under surface of the wings dark 

 " brown, with the inner margin of the quills and the coverts white. 

 " a <? type Keren Nee 14-3-74, (Wardlaw 



Ramsay) Walden Mus, Length 5-20 ; C. 0'65 ; W. 215 ; Tl. 2-80 ; Ts. 0-5. 

 " b type Tonghoo hills 0-4-74 ditto ditto 5-70 070 2.20 3.2 0.607. 



" c $ Keren Nee 12-3-74. 

 " P $ type of Waldeni by my measurement 550 070 215 275 057." 



