CLASSIFICATION. li 



Page 363. Arachnothera dilutioe. Add: — 

 Arachnothera dilutior, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 621. 



I have examined four specimens collected by Mr. A. H. Everett at Puerto Princesa, on the 

 island of Palawan. They are one male and three females, in all of which the pectoral tufts are 

 present, and the plumage perfectly similar. According to the labels, " 6 iris brown, bill black, 

 legs and feet dark grey ; S iris dark brown, denuded orbital skin greenish yellow, bill black with 

 the lower mandible grey, legs and feet bluish grey." 



Male. Total length 5-8 inches, culmen P45, wing 2-8, tail 215, tarsus 075. 



Females. Total length 5-3 to 5-4 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 2-4 to 2-45, tail 1-6 to 1-75, 

 wing - 65. 



Page 365. Arachnothera chrysogenys. Add: — 



Arachnothera chrysogenys, Hume & Davison, Str. F. vi, p. 177 (1878); Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 261 ; id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 343 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genova, xiv, p. 214 (1879). 



Count Salvadori records three specimens collected by Dr. Beccari at Ajer, in the west of the 

 island of Sumatra. Mr. Sharpe writes (P. Z. S. 1879, p. 343) :— " Arachnothera chrysogenys 

 (Temm.), Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 107, is to be expunged from the Labuan list." Nevertheless 

 I feel little doubt it will be found to inhabit that island. 



2. ARACHNORAPHIS. Type. 



Arachnor aphis, Reichb. Handb. Scansorise, p. 313 (1854) A. flavigastra. 



Arachnocestra, Reiclib. torn. cit. p. 314 A. crassii-ostris. 



No bare skin on the sides of the head. Culmen not compressed into a sharp ridge between 

 the nostrils, but broad, flattened or rounded. 

 Range. Malay region. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Bill proportionally slighter and longer ; culmen more than three times 



the length of the tarsus. No yellow on the sides of the head . . . robusta, p. 367. 



b. Bill proportionally stouter and shorter; culmen rarely exceeds twice 



the length of the tarsus. With yellow on the sides of the head. 

 b 1 . Yellow on the sides of the head confined to a few feathers above and 



below the eye crassirostris, p. 371. 



c'. Yellow on the sides of the head forms a broad circle round the eye, 



and extends over the lower half of the ear-coverts flavigastra, p. 373. 



Page 371. Arachnoraphis crassirostris. Add : — 



Arachnoraphis crassirostris, Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 261. 



Arachnothera crassirostris, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xiv, p. 215 (1879). 



According to Count Salvadori (I. c.) it has recently been collected at Ajer, in the western 



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