454 Birds of Celebes: Nectariniidae. 



d. Promerops flavostriata (1) Gray, HL. 1869, I, 110, Nr. 1349 (nee syn.). 



Aethopyga flavostriata (1) Wald., Ibis 1870, 35; (2) SalvacL, Ibis 1871, 248; (3) Wald., 

 Tr. Z. S. Vin, 1872, 71; (4) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VH, 659; IfV) 

 Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 53, pi. (1877); (6) Salvad., Atti Ac. Sc. Tor. 1877, XH, 

 314; (7) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 132; (8) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 18S3, 119, 138; (9) Gadow, 

 Cat. B. IX, 1884, 23; (10) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 554; (11) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. 

 Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 10; (12) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 152; (13) id., ib. 1897, 161. 



e. Nectarinia sp. ? (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VHI, 71. 



/: Aethopyga beccarii (I) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VII, 659, pi. XVIH, fig. 1, 2; 

 (2) id., Atti Ac. Sc. Tor. 1877, XH, 315, 316 (note). 



'•Tampanisi randang", near Tondano, Nat. Coll. 



"Tjui merah", Manado, Guillem. 10, Nat. Coll. 



"Kios-raa", Tulabello, Rosenb. b 3. 



Figures and descriptions. Shelley V; Wallace b I; Salvadori f I; Briiggemann b 2; 

 Gadow 9. 



Adult male. Sinciput and a long submalar stripe metallic violet-blue-black; rest of 

 head, ear-coverts, neck, back, scapulars, and smaller wing-coverts dark 

 scarlet, with dusky black bases to the feathers; wings dusky, the greater coverts 

 and quills margined with dark scarlet hke the back; rump light yellow; tail black, 

 the upper coverts and a broad fringe to the rectrices metallic violet-blue; malar 

 streak, chin, throat, and breast scarlet, the last with whitish and yellowish bases 

 to the feathers, the chin and throat striated with straw yellow; remaining under 

 parts dusky greenish ohve; under wing-coverts wliite; edge of wing varied with 

 brown; quills below shining dusky, inner edges whitish fnear Tondano, [rf] ad., 

 Vm.— IX. 92, Nat. Coll.: C 10819; Rui-ukan, cT ad., 8. VIE. 84, Platen in Mus. 

 Nehrkorn, Nr. 958). 



Iris brown; bill brown, below hghter; feet brown (Platen). 



Female. Above ohvaceous green, below more ochraceous; the black centres of the feathers 

 of the head giving a squamose appearance ; mantle, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, tail, 

 edges of remiges and of wing-coverts chiefly red, the tijjs of the feathers (except of 

 the remiges) more ochraceous or olivaceous; under wing -coverts light yellow [Q, 

 between Ussu and Lake Matanna, S. E. Central Celebes: Sarasin Coll.). 



Young male. Resembles the female, but Capt. Shelley believes the latter is never quite so 

 red. Few females in which the sex has been anatomically ascertained are known. 



Measurements (7 in adult male dress). Wing 54 — 57 mm; tail 40 — 47; bill from nostril 

 14 — 15.5; tarsus 14 c. An adult (^ from [Lake Towuti has the mng 52 mm 

 (Sarasin Coll.). 



Eggs. "The egg in my collection from the south of Celebes has a grey-white ground-colour, 

 with pale grey shell- spots and black-bi'own superjacent spots, some of which are 

 round, others straight vermiform and are equally distributed over the whole egg. The 

 measurements are: 15 X 10.5 nun" (Nehrkorn MS.). 



Two eggs in the Sarasin Coll. (mother-bii-d accompanying them), unfortunately 

 much damaged, answer to Mi\ Nehrkorn 's description. 



Nest. The nest sent mth the above two eggs is a pendant, pear-shaped structure, attached 

 to a small thorn-bearing twig, the entrance-hole in the side. It is composed chiefly 

 of moss and bits of dead leaf (? bamboo), with dark root-fibres round the entrance, 

 lined with finer pale fibres and plant-down (Tomohon, N. Celebes, 8. April, 1894: 

 Sarasin Coll.). 



Distribution. Celebes — Minahassa (Wallace a 1, b I, 9, Meyer 7, etc.); Gorontalo Distr. 



