Birds of Celebes: Nectariniidae. 



465 



(J. f. O. 1883, 132 — a collection obtained by Schneider from Duivenbode 

 composed of specimens from Celebes, Ternate and Halmahera); and herewith 

 their authority ceases" (a 4). 



A series of 1 1 were included among a number of birds from Balante, East 

 Celebes, collected by native hunters, together with others from Peling and 

 Banggai, for the Dresden and Tring Museums. 



A specimen in the Dresden Museum wrongly referred to by us in J. f. O. 

 1894, 245 as Hermotimia porphyrolaema , is also not the same as H. auriceps, 

 differing in having the mantle, as well as the lower back, etc. glossy steel-blue. 

 It is labelled by van Musschenbroek: "Manado, VI. 74 cJ"". This is a new 

 species, which we abstain from naming till another specimen reaches us. 



* 184. HERMOTIMIA PORPHYROLAEMA (Wall.). 

 Celebesian Black Sun-bird. 



The typical form belongs to South Celebes. A subspecies from East Celebes 

 has been named, but the northern birds, as regards the adult male at least, 

 are sufficiently (peculiar to justify their being treated as a species. The two 

 known forms of H. porphyrolaema are : 



■f' 1. The typical Hermotimia porphyrolaema. 



a. Nectarinia aspasia pt. (1) S. Miill., Verb. Natuurk. Comm. 1846, 58, 64, 65 (Macassar). 

 h. Nectarinia porphyrolaema (1) Wall, P. Z. S. 1865, 479. 



c. Promerops porphyrolaema {1) Gray, HL. 1869, I, 110, Nr. 1360. 



d. Chalcostetha porphyrolaema {1] Wald., Ibis 1870, 46; {2) id., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VHI, 71; 



(3) Meyer, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien 1874, LXX, 123; {4) id.. Ibis 1879, 131, 146. 



e. Hermotimia porphyrolaema [1] Salvad., Atti Ac. Sc. Tor. 1874, X, 232; (II) id., Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VH, 660, pi. XVm, f. 3; (3) id., Atti Ac. Sc. Tor. XH, 

 1877, 310; (4) id., Orn. Pap. H, 1881, 261; {5} id., Ibis 1884, 325; (G) W. Bias., 

 Ztschr. gas. Orn. 1885, 287; (7) id., J. f. 0. 1885, 403; {8) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. 

 Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 11. 



f. Cinnyris porphyrolaemus {1} Shelley, Monogr. Nect. 95, pi. 32, f. 1 (1877); (2) Buttik., 



ZooL Erg. Weber's Eeise inOst-Ind. 1893, HE, 279; (3) Hart, Nov. ZooL 1896, 152; 

 {4} id., ib. 1897, 157, 161. 



g. Nectarophila grayi pt. (1) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 132, 146 (Togian). 



h. Cinnyris aspasiae pt. (1) Gadow, Cat. B. IX, 1884, 68, 70, 72, 73. 



"Tjui tjui itam" (Malay: itam = black), South Celebes, Platen e 6. 



Figures and descriptions. Shelley f I\ Salvadori e /J, ei; Wallace h 1\ Gadow h 1\ 

 W. Blasius e 6. 



Adult male. Velvety black; the least wing-coverts, metacarpal edge, lower half of 

 back, upper tail-coverts and a broad edging to the tail-feathers metallic 

 steel-blue-black; head above metalHc greenish gold; chin and throat metallic violet, 

 bordered at the sides by a submalar stripe of steel-blue (cf ad. Tjamba Distr., 

 S. Celebes, 22. VI. 78: Platen — C 13202). Iris brown; bill and feet black (Platen). 



Young male. Head above and nape grey, with dark centres to the feathers; quills brown; 

 mantle, back and external edges of quills oHve-yellow [yellow-obve] ; chin and 



Me.ver k Wi glcsiv or t h, Birds of Celebes (Nov. !ltli, 1S97I. 59 



