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CINNYEIS THERESA. 



(KEI-ISLAND BLACK SUN-BIRD.) 



Cinnyris astasia (part.), Eosenb. J. f. O. 1864, p. 123. 

 Nectarinia astasia (part.), Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 163 (1865). 

 Chalcostetha chlorolcema, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genova, vi. p. 77(1874). 

 Hermotimia theresia, Salvad. Atti E. Ace. Torino, x. pp. 208, 214, cum tab. fig. 1 (1874), 

 xii. p. 300 (1877). 



c? ad. niger : pileo metallice aurato-viricli : tectricibus alarum minimis et medianis, dorso postico, supra- 

 caudalibus et rectricum marginibus metallice viridibus : mento gulaque metallice viridibus dorso 

 postico concoloribus. 



tf imm. pileo et collo postico saturate cinerascentibus, pileo laterali pallidiore : dorso, scapularibus et supra- 

 caudalibus olivascenti-flavis : alis saturate brunneis, plumis late olivascenti-flavo marginatis : rectricibus 

 nigris, anguste olivaceo limbatis, quatuor externis albo terminatis : mento gulaque cinerascenti-albis, 

 lateraliter metallice viridibus : corpore reliquo subtus pallide flavo. 



Hab. in insulis " Kei " dictis. 



Adult Male. Black, with a deep-blue gloss ; tbe entire crown metallic golden green ; least and median 

 series of wing-coverts, scapulars, lower balf of the back, and tbe upper tail-coverts metallic green ; 

 remainder of tbe wings brownish black, glossed with blue, and with some of the outer greater coverts 

 partially edged with metallic green ; chin and throat of the same metallic green as the lower back ; 

 bill and legs black; irides dark brown. Total length 4j'8 inches, culmen - 8, wing 2"35, tail 1*6, 

 tarsus 065. 



Male in moult. Forehead, crown, and back of the neck deep ashy grey, sides of the head paler; back, 

 scapulars, and upper tail-coverts olive-yellow ; wings dark brown, with all the feathers broadly edged 

 with olive-yellow ; tail black, the feathers narrowly edged with olive, and with white ends to the four 

 outer ones, broadest on the lateral ones ; chin and throat ashy white, with a streak of metallic green 

 feathers on each side ; breast and under tail-coverts very pale yellow ; under surface of the wings 

 brown, with the coverts and the inner margins of the quills white. Total length 4'5 inches, culmen 

 O'B, wing 2 - 35, tail 1"6, tarsus - 65. 



Hab. Kei Islands. 



This well-marked species may be readily distinguished from all the other members of this group 

 by the chin and throat being of the same brilliant metallic green as the lower back. 



It appears to be confined to the Kei Islands, where Signor Beccari in 1873 procured four 

 fully plumaged adult males and one male in moult; upon these Count Salvadori founded his 

 Chalcostetha chlorolcema, but changed the name a few months later into Hermotimia theresia, in 

 honour of the Marchioness Teresa Doria, on account of the name Nectarinia chlorolcema having 



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