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purple tint on the throat which changes from pansy-purple to maroon-purple 

 with a coppery lustre, according to the light; the metallic crown of this bird 

 is of a trifle deeper greenish gold, and the size larger. H. sangirensis (Meyer) 

 has departed a little more widely; it has the throat coppery-bronze and the 

 submalar stripe purple-steel-blue. The Celebes Province thus possesses the only 

 species of Hermotimia with a submalar stripe of a different colour from the 

 throat, viz: 



H. porphyrolaema: South, West and East Celebes; 

 H. grayi: North Celebes ; 

 H. sangirensis: Sangi; 

 H. talautensis: Talaut. 



■^*185. HERMOTIMIA GRAYI (Wall.). 



North Celebes Black Sun-bird. 



a. Neetarinia grayi (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1865, 479; (2) Briigg., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 73. 

 h. Promerops grayi (1) Gray, BX,. I, 1869, 110, Nr. 1359. 



c. Nectarophila grayi (I) Wald., Ibis 1870, 20, 42, pi. 1, f. 2; (2) id., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VTH, 



71; (3) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VH, 660; (4) Lenz, J. f. O. 1877, 

 375; (5) Meyer, BjIs 1879, 132 (nee Togian); (6) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 138; 

 (7) id., Ztschr. ges. Orn. 1886, 197. 



Hermotimia grayi (1) Salvad., Atti Ac. Sc. Tor. 1877, Xn, 310, 313; (II) Meyer, Vogelskel. 

 I, 1894, t. CCVH; (3j M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 11. 



d. Cinnyris grayi (I) Shelley, Monogr. Nect. 91, pi. 31 (1877); (2) Gadow, Cat. B. IX, 



1884, 66; (3) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 554; (4) Tristr., Cat. CoU. B. 1889, 214; 

 (5) Hart. Kat. Vog. Slg. Senckenb. Mus. 1891, 30. 



"Burong tjui kapala mas" (Golden-headed), Malay, Minahassa, Meyer c 5. 



"Burong tjui itam" (itam = black), Malay, Nat. Coll. 



Figures and descriptions. Shelley d J; Walden c J; Meyer 77 (skeleton) ; Briiggemann a 2; 

 Gadow d 2. 



Adult male. Just like H. porphijrolaema (^ ad. of S. Celebes ('descr. antea), but the neck, 

 mantle, scapulars and breast dark blood-red, not black, the bases of the feathers 

 blackish, forming a black cross-mark anterior to the broad red fringe of the tei-minal 

 part; some of the middle, as well as the lesser, wing-coverts metallic steel-blue, the 

 others and the inner greater series touched with red (Lotta, 12. V. 93: Nat. Coll. 

 — C 12211). 



Iris red; feet, claws and bill black: Meyer c 5. 



Adult female. Upper parts ashy brown, vnth the entire back, scapulars, and least 

 and median wing-coverts shaded with ohve; remainder of wings dark brown, 

 the greater coverts and quills broadly edged with oHve-yellow; upper tail-coverts 

 and tail black, the latter with white tips to some of the outer feathers; chin and 

 throat white; breast and under tail-coverts pale yellow; quills below brown, 

 inner margins and the under wing-coverts white, the latter shaded with sulphur-yellow 

 (after Shelley d 1). 



Young male. Much Uke the female; chin and throat washed with greenish yellow; malar 

 stripe steel-blue, as in the adult male; some steel-blue feathers in the upper tail- 



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