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Page 127. Cinnyris hasselti. Add: — 

 Anthreptes hasseltii, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 56 (1 854). 

 Leptocoma hasseltii, Bp. Comptes Rendus, 1854, p. 265 ; Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 



1877, p. 300. 

 Nectarinia hasseltii, Schl. Handl. Dierk. p. 256 (1857). 

 Nectarophila brasiliana, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxix, p. 300 (1870). 

 Nectarophila hasselti, Blyth & Walden, Mamm. & B. Burma, p. 142 (1875) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 



1877, p. 18; Tweedd. torn. cit. p. 302. 

 Cinnyris brasilianus, Hume, Str. F. v, p. 271 (1877). 

 Leptocoma braziliana, Hume & Davison, Str. F. vi, p. 184 (1878). 

 Cinnyris hasselti, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 342; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 264. 



Mr. Oates, who has kindly presented me with specimens of the bird and the nest from 

 Lower Pegu, informs me that it is not uncommon in that district. In Sumatra, again, it appears 

 to be a common species; for the late Mr. E. C. Buxton collected many specimens in the 

 Lampong district. 



Page 131. Cinnyris speratus. Add: — 



Bed-breasted Creeper, var. B, Lath. Gen. Syn. B. p. 708 (ex Sonn. pi. 30. fig. D, 1781). 



Nectarinia sperata, Drapiez, Diet. Class, xv, p. 511 (1829). 



Nectarinia coccinigastra, Drapiez, torn. cit. p. 512. 



Anthreptes sperata, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 56 (1854). 



Leptocoma sperata, Bp. Comptes Rendus, 1854, p. 265. 



Nectarophila sperata, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 830 ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 112, 286, 343, 620. 



Mr. A. H. Everett, in his late collections from the Philippine Islands, has sent this species 

 home from Leyte Island, Valencia (at the southern extremity of Negros), from the islands of 

 Dinagat and Nipah, and from Butuan river, Placer, and Surigao in the north-east of Mindanao, 

 and from Puerto Princesa on the island of Palawan. 



All these specimens were kindly lent to me by the late Marquis of Tweeddale ; and all the 

 males collected from May to September are in full plumage, while many of those collected in 

 Palawan in December and January are in imperfect plumage, which shows that this species has 

 a dull winter dress, which I believe not to be the case with C. hasselti and C. zeylonicus, Out of 

 this large series there are many in dull plumage, the sexes of which are difficult to determine, 

 as it appears to me that Mr. Everett has sexed them nearly all females, probably without 

 examination. * 



a. Nestling, not labelled (total length 2-65 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 1-5, tail 0'5, tarsus 0-5), 

 similar in plumage to 



b. "Dinagat, ? , June 1877. bill black, mandible brown, legs black, iris dark brown." 

 Upper parts deep olive, including the least and median series of wing-coverts ; remainder of the 

 wings dark brown with rufous yellow edges to the feathers ; tail black, a few of the feathers with 

 white tips and with rufous-olive edges, a broad dusky band through the eye ; eyelids sulphur- 



