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This beautiful species is confined to the Sanghir Islands, where it was first discovered by 

 M. Joukhur van Duyvenbode, and has since been procured there by Hoedt, Meyer, and Bruijn. 

 All the latter gentleman's specimens were collected on the small island of Petta ; and a pair of 

 these I have here figured and described. 



Count Salvadori (I. c.) observes that three female specimens which he has examined are all 

 slightly smaller than the males ; and he points out that Dr. Meyer has in his description mistaken 

 the female of C. sanghirensis as belonging to this species. He further remarks that it does not 

 appear to him right to retain this species in the genus JEthopyga, differing, as he observes, in the 

 form of the tail, in the metallic colouring of the wing-coverts, and in the underparts being 

 yellow ; but he thinks that it should form the type of a genus intermediate between 2Ethopyga, 

 Anthreptes, and Chalcoparia. 



For my own part, I see no particular affinities between this genus Eudrepanis and Anthreptes 

 and Chalcoparia ; but if we compare it with any group besides JEtliopyga, it may perhaps present 

 characters nearest to Nectarophila, Reichb., as I have already remarked in my article upon 

 E. pulcherrima. 



I am indebted to Count Salvadori for his kindness in lending me a pair of this Sun-bird for 

 the purposes of describing and figuring in the present work. 



