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CINNYEIS POBPHYBOLJIMUS. 



(CELEBEAN BLACK SUN-BIRD.) 



Nectarinia aspasia (pt.), Schl. & Miill. Verhand. Zool. Aves, p. 58 (1846). 



Nectarinia porphyrolcema, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 479. 



Promerops porphyrolcema, Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 110. no. 1360 (1869). 



Chalcostetha porph,yrolamia,Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 46; id. Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 71 (1874); 



Meyer, Sitz. k. Ak. Wissensch. Wien, lxx. p. 122 (1874). 

 Hermotimia porphyrolcema, Salvad. Atti R. Ace. Sc. Tor. x. pp. 208, 232 (1874); id. Ann. 



Mus. Civic. Genova, vii. p. 660. no. 38, pi. 18. fig. 3 (1875); id. Atti R. Ace. Sc. Torino, 



xii. p. 310 (1877). 



3 ad. niger, saturate indigotico nitens : pileo summo metallice aurato-viridi : tectricibus alarum minimis, 

 dorso postico et supracaudalibus chalybeis, vix violaceo nitentibus : rectricibus nigris, extus ckalybeis : 

 mento gulaque metallice rubescenti-lilacinis : striga, mystacali viridescente, chalybeo lavata : rostro 

 nigra : pedibus et iride saturate brunneis. 



$ ad. pileo postico et cervice cineraceis : dorso, scapularibus et tectricibus alarum minimis olivaceis : alis 

 aliter saturate brunneis, plumis late olivaceo marginatis, remigibus flavicanti-olivaceo limbatis : rectri- 

 cibus nigris, plumis albo terminatis, extends latius : gula alba : pectore, abdomine et subcaudalibus 

 sulfureis : alis infra brunneis, intiis albidis : subalaribus albis, anguste flavo limbatis. 



Hab. in insula Celebensi. 



Adult Male. Black with a deep blue gloss ; entire crown metallic golden-green ; least series of wing-coverts, 

 lower back, upper tail-coverts, and the outer edges of the tail-feathers steel-blue, slightly tinted with 

 violet ; chin and throat metallic ruby lilac, with a well-defined greenish shaded steel-blue streak down 

 each side; bill black; irides and legs dark brown. Total length 4 - 5 inches, culmen 0'7, wing 2 - 25, 

 tail 1'6, tarsus 0'6. 



Adult Female. Upper half of the head and the back of the neck ashy grey ; back, scapulars, and the least 

 series of wing-coverts olive ; remainder of the wings dark brown, with all the feathers broadly edged 

 with olive, which, on the quills, is of a more yellow shade ; tail black, the feathers mostly tipped with 

 white, most broadly so on the outer ones; chin and throat white; breast, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts sulphur-yellow ; under surface of the wings brown, with the inner margins of the quills and the 

 coverts white, the latter partially washed with pale yellow. Total length 4 - 2 inches, culmen 065, 

 wing 2'05, tad l - 4, tarsus 0*6. 



Male in moult. Similar in plumage to the adult female, excepting that the metallic colours begin to show 

 on the rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail, and on each side of the throat a well-defined metallic 

 moustachial streak ; the breast is much paler, the yellow fading almost into white on the sides of the 

 body and on the under tail-coverts. Total length 4 inches, culmen 06, wing 2 - 25, tail 15, tarsus - 6. 



Hab. Celebes. 

 This Sun-bird is most nearly allied to another Celebean form (C. grayi), from which it differs in 



