462 Birds of Celebes; Nectariniidae. 



roots and shi-eds of cotton-tree ( Goniphocarpus) bark, firmly interwoven yni\\ the wehs 

 and cocoons of spiders, and a few pieces of white sea-weed ornamenting the outside, 

 lined with white feathers and silky native cotton; size ahout 5 X 3'/2 inches (Eamsay, 

 Ibis 1865, 85). At Cape York: composed of Mdaleiiea-hTirk, a few leaves, various 

 fibrous substances, rejectamenta of caterpillars, etc., and lined with the silky cotton 

 of the Bombax australis (Macgill. in Grould 1. c). One of the nests obtained by 

 Meyer in Celebes was taken in April. 



Breeding season. Batjan — a nesting female was killed by Dr. Platen, 13. June, 1882 

 (Mus. Nehrk.). North Queensland and the islands of Torres Straits — 

 November, December (Macgill., Ramsay, 11. cc). 



Distribution. Celebes to New Guinea, the Admii-alty Is., New Britain group, the Solomons 

 and North Queensland. 



This Sun-bird is most nearly allied to C.jugularis (L.) of the Philippines, 

 the adult male of which is distinguishable by its wanting the yellow stripes 

 above and below the eye, by the metallic purple-black feathers of the throat 

 encroaching on to the cheeks up to the lores, and by its browner upper sur- 

 face. They belong to a group of which the males have the chin, throat, jugulum, 

 and sometimes the forehead, metallic purple-blue-black, the remaining under 

 parts yellow, sometimes with a band of another colour below the jugulum, the 

 upper parts olivaceous, as follows: 



1. C. flammiaxillaris (Blyth): Pegu, Tenasserim, Siam, Cochin China, Malay 



Peninsula. 



2. C. andamanicus (Hume): Andamans. 



3. C. pectoralis (Horsf.): Nicobars; Malacca; Sumatra; Borneo; Java; Lom- 



bok; Sumbawa (Guillem.); Floras; Samao (ten Kate). 



4. C. aurora Tweedd.: Palawan. 



5. C. rhizophorae (Swinh.): Hainan. 



6. C.jugularis (L.): Philippines; Sooloo (Guillem., Everett). 



7. Cfrenatus (S. Miiller): Celebes to the Solomons and Queensland. 



In musical terms the note of Cfrenatus is r:^ 



-4=^ 



s ^ 



t * 182. CYRTOSTOMUS TEIJSMANNI (Butt.). 



Black-bellied Sun-bird. 

 Plate XXVI. 



a. Cinnyris teysmanni (1) Biittik., Notes Leyden Mus. 1893, XV, 179; (2) Hart., Nov. 

 Zdol. 1896, 167, 182. 



h. ?Cyrtostomus sp. (1) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 16. 



Male. "Entire crown, sides of head, hind neck, mantle, back and rump, wing- 

 coverts and outer edge of quills uniform earthy brown with a sUght tinge of ohve; 

 upper tail-coverts pui-plish bro'wn; tail-feathers purpKsh black, the outer webs 

 narrowly edged with metallic green; chin and throat metallic purphsh blue, flanked 

 on both sides with a broad metallic green stripe, forming a moustacliial streak which 

 is produced down to the sides of the chest; the latter is separated from the breast 



