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yellow; lores, velvety black; jaw, cheeks, and ear-coverts, metallic blue; chin, 

 throat, and breast, pale yellow, reduced to a light yellow wash on abdomen, flanks, 

 and under tail-coverts; middle of breast, marked with a few small spots of scarlet; 

 wings, black; primaries bordered with white on inner webs and with no metallic 

 color; all the wing-coverts and the secondaries widely margined with metallic 

 blue, mixed with a little dark metallic green; tail, black, upper tail coverts and 

 edges of retrices, metallic blue mixed with dark metallic green. Bill, legs, and 

 claws black. Length in flesh, 3.8 inches; wing, 1.9C; tail, 0.97 culmen from base, 

 0.72; tarsus, 0.55. 



Female. — No. 11409, Bureau of Science Collection; Sevilla, Island of Bohol, 

 P. I.; March 23, 1906; Celestino and Canton, collectors. 



Differs from the female of Eudrepanis jefferyi in having the rump patch much 

 lighter yellow. Upper parts, including wings, olive-green; top of head, mixed with 

 dark gray; rump pale yellow: retrices, blackish with margins of dark, metallic 

 green ; chin, throat, breast, face, and sides of neck, whitish with a slightly streaked 

 appearance from the dusky shaft lines; rest of lower parts, very pale yellow. 

 Length in flesh, 3.5 inches; wing, 1.72; tail, 0.88; culmen from base, 0.72; 

 tarsus, 0.51. 



Eudrapanis pulcherrima was described as an /Ethopyga^ 5 with the suggestion 

 that it was probably generieally distinct. The type locality is Basilan and the 

 species is represented in the Bureau of Science collection by two males taken 

 near Isabela, Basilan, January 16 and 28, 1907. In 1894 Grant 16 described a 

 second species from Benguet Province, Luzon, as Eudrepanis jefferyi with the 

 following characters: "The patch of metallic feathers behind the eye is steel-blue 

 instead of green; the outer webs of the secondaries and scapulars are widely 

 margined with metallic green, not olive-green; and the scarlet patch on the middle 

 of the upper breast is more conspicuous." 



A series, some 20 specimens, of this species was obtained by me at Irisan, 

 Benguet, in April, May, and June, 1903. The most important of the characters 

 assigned seems to be the metallic green of the secondaries but the size of the 

 scarlet breast patch varies in specimens from the same locality and in the series 

 before me it does not differ in the two species. In E. decorosa the patch is 

 absent and represented by a, few scarlet dots. I may note that the feathers form- 

 ing the patch are red, with rather wide yellow tips, so that the patch always 

 appears broken ; the feathers are not edged with red as stated by Gadow. 17 I have 

 stated that the yellow of throat and breast in Eudrepanis jefferyi and .Ethopyga 

 rubrinota is of about the same shade: in Eudrepanis decorosa the yellow is much 

 paler, about as in JEthopyga shelleyi. Specimens of this very distinct species of 

 sun-bird were obtained at Sevilla in March and at Guindulman in June. 



Cinnyris sperata (Linn.).* 



Several specimens from Guindulman and Tagbilaran. 



Cinnyris jugularis (Linn.). 



Cyrtostomus jugularis Tweeddale. Proe. Zool. Soe. (1878), 710. 



This sun-bird was abundant in all parts of Bohol and as usual was found feed- 

 ing in coconut trees as well as in forest and among the trees growing along rivers 

 which make up the general tangle known as "mangle/' The native name is 

 "tarn-si." In the >eries of males collected there is considerable variation in the 

 color of the breast ranging from pure yellow to bright orange. 



"Sharpe: Nature (1876), 14, 297. 



"Bull. Brit. Omith. Club (1894), 3, 50; Ibis (1894), 513. 



17 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 31. 



