1 CLASSIFICATION. 



instance of one of these birds " feeding a fully-fledged Cuckoo (C. micropenis) quite strong on 

 the wing." 



Arachnothera affinis, Blanford, Ibis, 1870, p. 467, should not be referred to this species, but 

 to A. longirostra. 



Page 353. Arachnothera modesta. Add: — 



Arachnothera modesta, Hume & Davison, Str. F. vi, pp. 176, 507; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Genova, xiv, p. 214 (1879). 



The range of this species is somewhat wider than I previously assigned to it. It ranges 

 from Tavoy town, where it has been procured by Mr. Davison (/. c. p. 507), into Sumatra and 

 Borneo. Count Salvadori regards a specimen collected by Dr. Beccari at Sungei Bula, in 

 Western Sumatra, as identical with specimens from Borneo ; and, upon such good authority, I 

 presume that the Sumatra species is A. modesta, and that A. affinis is confined to Java ; for 

 1 think it highly improbable that two such closely allied species should be found on the same 

 island. 



Page 355. Arachnothera affinis. Add : — 

 Cirmyris affinis, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 101. 



I think it advisable to limit the known range of this species to the island of Java, as the 

 evidence for its occurrence in Sumatra, based on Arachnothera inornata, S. Mull. & Schl., is not 

 sufficiently good, since Count Salvadori has recognized A. modesta as inhabiting that island. 



Page 357. Arachnothera longirostra. Add: — 

 Arachnothera longirostra, Temm. PI. Col. pi. 388, text (1826); Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 55 



(1854); Fairbank, Str. F. v, p. 397(1877); Hume & Davison, Str. F. vi, pp. 174, 507 



(1878); Hume, Str. F. vii, p. 35 (1878); Nicholson, Ibis, 1879, p. 166; Sharpe, torn. cit. 



p. 261 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xiv, p. 214 (1879). 

 Cirmyris longirostratw, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii, p. 32 (1828). 

 Cirmyris longirostris, Less. torn. cit. p. 56. 

 Arachnothera longirostris, Blytli, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 43 (1846) ; Schl. Handl. Dierk. p. 237 



(1857). 

 Arachnothera ])usilla, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 222 (1849). 



In Western Sumatra, Count Salvadori informs us (/. c), it has been collected by Dr. Beccari 

 at Kaju-tanem and at Ajer. 



The Celebes Spider-hunter was first referred to this species by Mr. Blyth (Cat. B. Mus. 

 A. S. B. p. 222). 



The illustration of this species was done after I published my article ; and I thought it 

 advisable to figure a male instead of a female from Java. 





