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CINNYRIS SANGIEENSIS. 



(SANGHIR BLACK SUN-BIRD.) 



Chalcostetha sangirensis, Meyer, Sitz. k. Ak. Wissensch. zu Wien, lxx. p. 124 (1874); 



Sclater, Ibis, 1874, p. 419. 

 Hermotimia sanghirensis, Salvad. Atti R. Ace. Torino, x. p. 233, pi. 1. fig. 2 (1874) ; id. Ann. 



Mus. Civic. Genova, ix. p. 56. no. 10 (1876); id. Atti R. Ace. Torino, xii. p. 311 (1877). 



d ad. brunnescenti-niger purpureo nitens : pileo sumrao metallice aurato-viridi : tectricibus alarum minimis, 

 scapularibus minoribus, dorso postico et supracaudalibus chalybeis : gutture cuprescenti-bronzino, supra 

 lateraliter chalybeo marginato. 



2 ad. supra grisescenti-viridis : remigibus nigricantibus extus olivascenti-viridi, intus albido limbatis : Cauda 

 nigra, rectricibus externis albo terminatis : subtus flava, gutture et pectore saturatioribus, abdomine et 

 subcaudabbus albidis. 



Hab. in insulis Sanghirensibus. 



Adult Male. Brownish black with a purple gloss ; the forehead, crown, and nape metallic golden green ; 

 least series of wing-coverts, a few of the smaller scapulars, the lower back and upper tail-coverts steel- 

 blue, shaded with violet and green; tail-feathers edged with lilac-bronze; throat coppery bronze, 

 margined with steel-blue on the sides of the chin and upper half of the throat ; bill and legs black ; 

 irides dark brown. Total length 4*3 inches, culmen - 65, wing 2'4, tail 1*75, tarsus 06. 



Adult Female. Upper half of the head and neck, back, and scapulars olive-yellow ; upper tail-coverts black ; 

 wings dark brown, all the feathers broadly edged with olive-green ; tail black, with white tips, broadest 

 on the outer feathers ; cheeks yellower than the crown ; underparts sulphur-yellow, slightly tinted with 

 olive on the sides of the breast ; the under tail-coverts very pale yellow ; under surface of the wings 

 brown, with the inner margins of the quills and the coverts white, the latter shaded with yellow ; bill, 

 legs, and irides dark brown. Total length 4 inches, culmen 06, wing 205, tail 1*4, tarsus 06. 



Male in moult. Similar in plumage to the adult female, excepting that it has a few metallic feathers on the 

 back of the crown ; tail-feathers edged with metallic violet ; a streak on each side of the throat coppery 

 bronze. 



Young Male. Similar to the last, excepting that there are no metallic feathers on the crown, and the chin 

 and throat are strongly shaded with orange-yellow. 



Hab. Sanghir Islands. 



This well-marked species belongs to that section of the " Hermotimia " group which comprises 

 species with the metallic portions of the back blue. It may be distinguished from its allies by 

 the general brownish shade of its plumage and by the bronzy copper-colour of its throat, in which 

 latter character it appears to be the species which most nearly approaches to Chalcostetha insignis. 



