CLASSIFICATION. xlix 



1. Arachnothera. t 



Arachnothera, Temm. PI. Col. pi. 388, note (1826) • A. chrysogenys. 



Sides of the head with or without bare skin. Culmen compressed into a sharp ridge 

 between the nostrils. 



Range. The same as for the subfamily. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Cheeks feathered. No yellow on the sides of the head. 



a'. Bill proportionally stouter and stronger. No pectoral tufts. Throat 

 and under surface of the body the same colour, and more or less 

 striped. 

 a". Upper parts striped. Underparts huff, and strongly striped. 

 a'". Stripes broader and more distinct on the lower half of the 



back magna, p. 347. 



&'". Stripes narrower and almost obsolete on the lower half of the 



back aurata, p. 351. 



b". Upper parts without stripes. Underparts ashy and indistinctly 

 striped. 

 b'". Smaller. Shaft-stripes paler and less sharply defined. General 



plumage slightly greener. Lower mandible paler .... modesta, p. 353. 

 c'". Larger. Shaft-stripes darker and more sharply defined. General 

 plumage slightly more golden above and more ashy beneath. 



Lower mandible darker affinis, p. 355. 



b' . Bill proportionally weaker and longer. With pectoral tufts. Throat 

 white or ashy white; under surface of the body yellow or shaded 

 with yellow. 

 b". Sides of the chest, abdomen, and under tail-coverts bright yellow. 

 b ! ". Centre of the chest bright yellow. Pectoral tufts chrome- 

 yellow longirostra, p. 357. 



c'". Centre of the chest white. Pectoral tufts deep orange . . . flammifera, p. 361. 

 c". Under surface of the body olive-buff. Pectoral tufts chrome- 

 yellow dilntior, p. 363. 



b. Cheeks bare. An eyebrow and the lower half of the ear-coverts sulphur- 



vellow • • chrysogenys, p. 365. 



Page 347. Arachnothera magna. Add : — 

 Arachnothera magna, Gammie, Str. F. v, p. 385 (1877); Hume & Davison, Str. F. vi, 

 pp. 173, 507(1878). 



Mr. Hume writes (Str. F. vi, p. 507) :— "This year in April, for the first time in five years, 

 Davison saw and shot a single specimen of this species, and this not only far south of Pahpoom, 

 but actually at Tavoy itself." 



Mr. Gammie (I. c.) gives an interesting account of its habits in Sikkim, and mentions an 



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