456 Birds of Celebes: Keetariniidae. 



ciable differences, and brings conviction that no variation has taken place since 

 the land connecting Borneo and Sumatra was submerged by the China Sea. 



The genus Aethopyga is not found east of the Molucca Strait. The long 

 loose, downy feathers on the side of the rump, capable of being drawn over it 

 so as to conceal the yellow, seem to afford the best mark of generic distinction 

 for it. Sangi has furnished no member of this group. 



GENUS EUDREPANIS Sharpe. 



The male has the rump yellow, as in Aethopyga^ but the tail is simply 

 rounded and relatively shorter, rather more than half the length of the wing; 

 under parts yellow, with or without other light tints. Range: Philippine and 

 Sangi Islands. 



~* * 180. EUDREPANIS DUIVENBODEI (Sclil.). 



Sangi Green-capped Sun-bird. 



a. Nectarinia duyvenbodei ') (1) Schl., Ned. Tschi-. Dierk. IV, 1873, 14; {2} Meyer, Sitzb. 

 Ak. Wien 1S74, LXX, 125 (excl. descr. fern.). 



i. Aethopyga? duyvenbodei (1) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1876, IX, 57. 



c. Aethopyga duyvenbodei {1} Salvad., Atti Ac. Sc. Torino 1877, XTT, 316; {2] Gadow, 

 Cat. B. rX, 1884, 30; (3) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 588; {4) Tristr., Cat. Coll. B. 

 1889, 213; {5) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 135. 



Eudrepanis duyvenbodei {!) Shelley, Monogr. Nect. 81, pi. 27 (1877); (2) Meyer, Isis, 

 Dresden 1884, 6, 37. 



Figures and descriptions. Shelley J; Schlegel a 1\ Salvadori h 1; Gadow c 2\ 

 Blasius c 3. 



Adultmale. Forehead and crown metallic coppery green; sides of occiput, ear-coverts 

 and neck dull crimson, mantle, back and scapulars yellow olive-green; wings 

 dusky blackish, the smaller coverts metallic greenish blue, the larger series broadly 

 fringed with this colour, the quills, except the outermost, edged with olive-green; 

 rump gamboge-yellow; upper tail-coverts metalhc violet-blue, tail-feathers dusky 

 black, the three outer pairs tipped with brownish white about 10 mm broad in the 

 outermost; lores and orbit yellow, the lores with dark tips; malar region, chin, 

 throat and entire under-parts gamboge-yellow washed with orange on sides of 

 breast; under wing-coverts white, yellower near edge of wing, axillaries light 

 yellow (Tabukan, Great Sangi, [rf] : Meyer — 5976). 

 Ms bi'OMTi; bill and feet black. (Platen 3). 



Female. With no metalhc parts in the plumage: above yellow olive-green, like the back of 

 the male, head above scaly -looking, owing to subterminal black cross-marks; rump 

 greenish yellow; wing- and tail-coverts like the back; entire under-parts yellow, 

 less bright than in the male, the throat and chest sHghtly washed with ohve (Tabu- 

 kan, [Q], Meyer — C 2471). Base of under bill brownish yellow. 



Young male in changing plumage. Like the female, but the head and neck browner, the 

 crown, shoulders and upper tail-coverts varied with the metalUc feathers of the adidt 



1) The correct way of spelling van Duivenb ode's name is with an i. 



