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Page 135. Cinxyris julle. Add: — 

 Wectarophila julice, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 951. 



Mr. A. H. Everett, while on the island of Mindanao, collected a large series of specimens at 

 Zamboanga in April. Most of the males agree perfectly with my description and figures ; but 

 many have the sides and back of the neck next to the ear-coverts and the nape washed with 

 olive. The description of the adult female agrees with the specimens before me ; but in the 

 illustration the green shade is a little too intense on the head and underparts. A young male 

 and a young female, so labelled by Mr. Everett, are both perfectly similar in plumage to the 

 adult female, but have the gape orange. 



Young Male in about half moult. Upper parts, including the least and median series of wing-coverts, ashy 

 brown ; remainder o£ the wings as in the adult ; a few metallic feathers on the crown and least series 

 of wing-coverts ; sides of the neck and the upper hack mottled with red, lower back and upper tail- 

 coverts metallic green glossed with lilac; tail brownish black with broad pale ends to some of the outer 

 feathers ; sides of the head ashy ; chin and throat white shaded with buff on the sides of the upper 

 throat ; breast bright yellow ; under tail-coverts paler. 



Page 137. Cinnyris zeylonicus. Add: — 



Certhia zeylonica, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii, p. 203 (1811). 



Cinnyris zeylonicus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi, p. 507 (1819) ; Hume, Str. F. v, 

 p. 270 (1877); Fairbank, torn. cit. p. 398; Davison & Wenden, Str. F. vii, p. 79 (1878); 

 Cripps, torn. cit. p. 267; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 569 (1879). 



Nectarinia nigralba, Drapiez, Diet. Class, xv, p. 510 (1829). 



XCinnyris lepida, Sykes, J. A. S. B. iii, p. 543 (1834). 



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



Leptocoma zeylonica, Bp. Comptes Rendus, 1854, p. 265 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 232; Fair- 

 bank, Str. F. iv, p. 256 (1876); Ball, Str. F. vii, p. 208 (1878). 



Nectarinia zeylonica, Hard. J. f. O. 1859, p. 292. 



Mr. Hume (Str. F. 1877, p. 270) writes with regard to the distribution of this species :— 

 " It may be generally stated that this species is confined to Ceylon, Southern and Eastern India. 

 It does not occur, so far as we know, in Sindh, Kutch, Kattiawar, Rajpootana, the Punjab, the 

 North-west Provinces, Oudh, Behar, the Central India Agency, nor in the major portions of 

 the Central Provinces, though in these latter it has been observed occasionally near Chanda, and 

 is common in the Rajpoor and Sumbulpoor districts. It does not extend into any part of British 

 Burmah. It is normally a bird of the heavier rainfalls and better-wooded provinces, though it 

 certainly occurs in the comparatively dry uplands of the Deccan. It never ascends any of the 

 mountain ranges, to the best of our belief, to any considerable elevation, but is essentially a bird 

 of the plains country. With this reservation its range may be said to include Ceylon, Travancore, 

 Cochin, the whole Madras Presidency, Mysore, Hyderabad, the Bombay Presidency south of the 

 20th degree N. lat., the southern portions of Berar and the Central Provinces to about the same 



