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feather being broadly marked with dark olive-green along the middle, 

 and laterally margined with pale sulphur-yellow, brightest on the 

 belly. Bill dusky-brown. Legs leaden-colour. Length about 5f 

 inches ; of wing 2f ; tail 1^ ; bill to forehead above f ; and but little 

 curved ; and tarse -| inch. 



From Pinang. 



Inhabits the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo. 



187. Cyrtostomus flammaxillaris. 



Nectarinia flammaxillaris, Blyth, J. A.S.Beng. xiv. p. 557(1845); 

 XV. p. 370. 



Nectarinia jugularis apud Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 979. 



Male. Colour of the upper-parts dull olive-green, brightening a 

 little on the rump ; beneath moderately bright chrome-yellow ; and 

 the axillary tuft intense yellow, with flame-colour anteriorly ; throat 

 and front of neck very dark glossy purple, margined laterally and 

 at the gorget with bright steel-purple, below which is a narrow cross- 

 band of dark red. 



Female. Colours similar, except in wanting the axillary tuft, and 

 having the throat and fore-neck yellow, like the rest of the lower- 

 parts. Tail blackish, its outermost feathers tipped with pure white, 

 this successively decreasing in quantity on the two or three next. 



Length 4^ ; wing 2^ ; tail If ; bill to forehead f ; tarse ^ inch. 



K presumed young male has the chin and middle of neck to breast 

 dark glossy purple, with a few steel-blue feathers laterally from the 

 chin, the sides of the neck from base of bill being yellow ; no flame- 

 coloured axillary tuft. 



From Pinang. Also inhabits Arracan and Tenasserim. 



188. Leptocoma hasselti. 



Nectarinia hasseltii, Temminck, PI. Col. 376. f. 3 ; Jardine, Nat. 

 Libr. Nect. pp. 218, 262. pi. 22; Miiller et Schlegel, Verh. Nat. 

 Gesch. Zool. Aves, p. 59. pi. 10. f . 5 $ . 



Leptocoma hasselti, Cabanis, Catal. B. Mus. Heine, p. 104. 



Certhia brasiliana, Shaw, Zool. viii. p. 257. 



Certhia sperata apud Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 298. 



Nectarinia phayrei, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 1008 (1843). 



Chirichit, Chechap seu Siap, Sumatra (Raffles). 



Male. Crown brilliant golden-green ; cheeks, sides and back of 

 neck, interscapularies, and wings, deep black ; tail also black, but 

 richly glossed with purple ; scapularies, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 brilliant steel-blue ; throat and fore-neck splendid amethystine- 

 purple ; breast and flanks anteriorly rich dark red, posteriorly with 

 the vent and under tail-coverts dull greyish-black. 



Female. Upper-parts including the shoulder and upper tail- 

 coverts dull olive-green ; crown tinged with grey ; wings dusky- 

 black, the larger rangs of wing-coverts margined with grey, the 

 primaries with cinnamon-yellow ; tail blue-black ; cheeks, throat. 



