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shade on the forehead ; one male from Basilan has the entire forehead metallic violet, and the 

 centre of the chest slightly shaded with orange, while a second male from the same island has no 

 metallic colouring on the forehead, and no shade of orange on the chest. 



An immature male from Leyte is similar in plumage to the female, excepting that it has a 

 broad, black, partially metallic band down the centre of the throat. In this group of Sun-birds 

 the adult dress appears generally in the form of a central band of metallic colours on the throat, 

 while in the " Hermotimia group" the metallic feathers are generally first assumed on the sides 

 of the throat. 



The Nestling, "5, Butuan, May 1877" {Everett). Upper parts olive; wings dark brown with broad olive- 

 yellow edges to all the feathers ; tail black with the outer feathers on each side white, and with white 

 ends to some of the others ; ear-coverts olive like the back ; eyebrows, cheeks, and entire underparts 

 bright yellow. Total length 2'5 inches, culmen - 4, wing T55, tail 0'6, tarsus - 55. 



Page 153. Cinnyris frenatus. Add: — 



Cyrtostomus frenatus, Bp. Comptes Eendus, 1854, p. 265 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 



vii, pp. 400, 658, 777, 825 (1875), viii, p. 30 (1876), x, p. 143 (1877); id. Atti E. Ace. 



Sc. Torino, xii, p. 317 (1877); id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 97. 

 Nectarinia eximia, Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 190 ; id. 1861, p. 433. 

 Wectarinia zenoMa, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 155 ; 1860, p. 348, part., " Gilolo ;" 1861, p. 433, 



part., "New Guinea." 

 Nectarinia frenata, Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 163 (1865); DAlbertis, Ibis, 1877, p. 367; 



Sclat. P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 103, 553 ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 125 ; Sclat. torn. cit. p. 289 ; 



Finsch, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 11. 

 Cinnyris frenatus, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales, iii, p. 287 (1878). 

 Aracknechthra frenata, Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 131. 



I entered this species by error as found in the island of Ceram, on the authority of a female 

 specimen so labelled. This specimen was collected by Mr. Wallace ; and I now feel confident 

 that it should be referred to C. zenoMa. C. frenatus and C. zenobia are not, I believe, to be met with 

 on the same islands ; so that the N. zenoMa, Gray, in the above synonymy probably belongs here. 



The eggs of this species, according to Mr. Ramsay, " are three in number, whitish or pinkish 

 white, with red spots, or clots, some sparingly, others thickly blotched." 



Page 161. Cinnyris flammaxillaris. Add: — 



XAntlireptes gidaris, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 56 (1854). 



Arachnechthra flammaxillaris, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxix, p. 301 (1870); Blyth & Walden, 

 Cat. Mamm. & B. Burma, p. 141 (1875); Armstrong, Str. F. iv, p. 313 (1876); Oates, 

 Str. F. v, p. 148 (1877) ; Hume & Davison, Str. F. vi, pp. 192, 507 (1878). 



Mr. Oates writes to me from Pegu, 4th September 1877, that "it is an error to suppose this 



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