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CINNYRIS FEENATUS. 



(AUSTRALIAN YELLOW-BREASTED SUN-BIRD.) 



Nectarinia frenata, S. Mull. Verhandl. p. 173 (1843) ; id. op. cit. Zool. Av. p. 61. no. 9, pi. 8. 

 f. 1(1846); Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 173; id. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 348; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 433 ; 

 Wallace, P. Z. S. 1862, pp. 335, 342; Briiggem. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, v. p. 73. 



Nectarinia flavigastra, Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 104; id. Voy. Sulphur, p. 43, pi. 24 (1844). 



Nectarinia australis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 201 ; Macgillivray, Voy. Rattlesnake, ii. App. 

 p. 357 (1852); Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, p. 85; Gould, Handb. B. Australia, i. p. 584 (1865); 

 id. B. Australia, Suppl. pi. 45 (1869) ; Newton, Zool. Rec. vii. p. 46 ; Diggles, Orn. Aus- 

 tralia ; Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 598. 



Cinnyris frenatus, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 408 (1850); Rosenberg, J. f. 0. 1864, p. 123. 



Cyrtostomus frenatus, Reichb. Handb. Scansoriae, p. 309. no. 726, pi. 589. fig. 3998 (1854). 



Cyrtostomus australis, Reichb. torn. cit. p. 309. no. 727, pi. 589. figs. 3999-4001. 



Arachnothera frenata, Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 112. no. 1387 (1869). 



Arachnothera australis, Gray, torn. cit. no. 1388. 



Arachnothera flavigastra, Gray, torn. cit. no. 1391. 



Arachnechthra frenata, Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 26 ; id. Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 71 (1874). 



6 ad. supra flavicauti-olivaceus : alis saturate bruimeis late olivaceo marginatis : cauda, nigra, rectricibus 

 quatuor extemis albo terminatis : capite laterali olivaceo : supercilio flavido indistincto : loris flavidis : 

 subtiis lsete flavus : gutture metallice violaceo, chalybeo lateraliter nitente : rostro et pedibus nigris : 

 iride saturate brunnea. 



2 ad. similis mari adulto, sed subtus omnino flava. 



Hab. in regione Austro-Malayana, et in Australia septentrionali. 



Adult Male. Upper parts yellowish olive ; wings dark brown, all the feathers broadly edged with yellowish 

 olive ; tail black with the four outer feathers on each side tipped with white, about one third of the 

 outermost one being of that colour ; sides of the head olive, with an eyebrow and a streak from the lores 

 yellow; underparts uniform bright yellow, with no distinctly coloured pectoral tufts; chin and throat 

 metallic violet, slightly shaded with steel-blue on the sides ; under surface of the wings brown, with the 

 inner margins of the quills and the under wing-coverts white, the latter tinted with yellow ; bill and 

 legs black ; irides dark brown. Total length 4" 4 inches, culmen 085, wing 2"3, tail 1 - 6, tarsus 6. 



Adult Female. Similar in plumage to the adult male, excepting that the chin and throat are yellow, uniform 

 with the breast. Total length 4 - 5 inches, culmen - 85, wing 2 - 2, tail 1-5, tarsus 06. 



Young Male. Similar in plumage to the female, but with a broad metallic violet band down the centre of 

 the throat. 



Hab. Celebes, Molucca Islands, New Guinea, islands of Torres Straits, and North-eastern Australia. 







