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latitude, Raj poor and the eastern states of these provinces, Orissa, the Tributary Mehals, Chota 

 Nagpoor and Lower Bengal west of the Burrumpooter. I have never yet seen it from any of the 

 districts east of this, e. g. Chittagong, Cachar, Tipperah, or Sylhet, though at Dacca, imme- 

 diately west of the river, it is common. Nor have I seen it from Assam, though said to occur 

 there, and though Godwin-Austen records a specimen from the Khasya hills." 



Page 143. Cinnykis minimus. Add: — 



Cinnyris minimus, Sykes, J. A. S. B. Hi, p. 543 (1834); Fairbank, Str. F. v, p. 398 (1877); 



Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 572 (1879). 

 Nectarinia minuta, Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 119 (1852). 

 Leptocoma minima, Hume, Nests & Eggs Ind. B. i, p. 150(1873); Fairbank, Str. F. iv, 



p. 392 (1876). 



The limits of its distribution in Ceylon, according to Captain Vincent Legge, appear to be 

 very uncertain. The nest, Mr. Davison informs us, " is suspended to a twig about four or five feet 

 from the ground ; it is similar, both in shape and materials, to that of Leptocoma zeylonica, but 

 . considerably smaller. They lay two eggs." The latter are described by Mr. Hume as " perfect 

 miniatures of some of the eggs of Arachnechthra asiatica ; in shape they are somewhat elongated 

 ovals, a good deal compressed towards one end. They have scarcely any gloss. The ground- 

 colour is dull greenish or greyish white ; and it is thickly speckled and mottled all over, mostly 

 so towards the larger end (where the spots have a tendency to become confluent and form a zone), 

 with dull greyish white and olivaceous brown. The eggs measure - 62 by - 42 inch." 



Page 151. Cixxykis jugularis. Add:— 



Blue-throated Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. B. Suppl. p. 163 (1801). 



Anthreptes jugularis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 56 (1854). 



Cyrtostomus jugularis, Bp. Comptes Rendus, 1854, p. 265; Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 710, 



951; 1879, p. 72. 

 Arachnechthra jugularis, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 536, 538, 547, 698, 763, 830; 1878, 



pp. 112, 280, 343. 



The late Marquis of Tweeddale kindly lent me for examination specimens collected by 

 Mr. A. H. Everett from the following localities : — Monte Alban, near Manila, island of Luzon ; 

 Amparo, in the island of Leyte; Valencia, southern point of Negros; islands of Bohol and 

 Nipah ; Butuan river, Placer, Surigao, and Zamboanga, in Mindanao ; islands of Basilan and 

 Camiguin. 



The specimens examined from Leyte, Panay, and Guimaras show no signs of chrome-yellow 

 on the chest, and no metallic colours on the forehead ; two adult males from Negros have the 

 centre of their chests rather strongly shaded with orange, and the frontal feathers slightly tinted 

 with metallic green ; a male from Zebu also has the chest shaded with orange, but no metallic 



