332 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums.  [Vot. XI, 
Iris very dark greyish brown, upper mandible brownish 
black, lower reddish pale sepia, feet pinkish sepia. 
Wings, 3 57, 57, 56, 55, 55, 55, 54, 54, 54, 53,52; @ 51, 
49, 48, 47, 47 mm. 
Contents of stomach : spiders and nectar from flowers. 
Description of the female: Above and below greyish 
green, head greyer ; primaries, secondaries and tail feathers 
more bronzy, fringed with reddish, in which this species 
differs from the succeeding. 
(The females, though much smaller than the males, 
belong undoubtedly to this species, for they were shot 
together with the males. They can readily be distinguished 
from the females of Aethopyga siparaja by the reddish 
fringes of the tail feathers, primaries and wing-coverts). 
Not so common as the A. siparaja and living in old 
forest and on the edge of clearings and as a rule at higher 
elevations. 
326. Aethopyga siparaja siparaja (Raffles). 
R. & K., I, p. 241. 
5 ad., ¢ imm. Fort de Kock, Padang Highlands, 
920 M. 
6, @. Balun, Muara Labu, Padang Highlands, 
480 M. 
. Koto Alam, Pajokumbuh, Padang Highlands, 
320 M. 
6 subad. Muara Kiawai, Ophir Districts, 40 M. 
6. Bencooien town. 
Iris dark reddish brown, upper mandible blackish 
brown, lower reddish, very pale brown, or very pale sepia, 
tip darker, feet brownish black, soles brownish yellow. 
Wings, ¢ 54, 53, 53, 53, 51, 52, 52, 52, 49 (subad.), 
48 (juv.); 9 45 mm. 
The young male only differs from the female in having 
some of the feathers of the mantle tipped with red. 
Contents of stomach : one examined contained a seed, 
which may be accidental, for these birds feed on insects, 
chiefly spiders, and on the nectar from flowers. 
They are often seen puncturing the base of Canna 
flowers to get at the nectar. 
(The same habit has been described by Swynnerton 
in the. Journ. Linn. Soc. Vol. xliii, Botany (1916) of the 
African Cinnyris chalybacus (L.), and by van der Meer 
Mohr in the Trop. Natuur viii, p. 122 (1919) of the Javanese 
Leptocoma ornata (Less.). 
Lives in open country and is a regular visitor of town 
gardens : is to be found wherever Eugenia malaccensis L. 
is flowering. 
