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CINNYBIS FLAMMAXILLARIS. 



(BURMESE YELLOW-BREASTED SUN-BIRD.) 



Nectarinia jugularis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 979 (1843). 



Nectarinia flammaxillaris, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 557(1845), xv. p. 370 (1846); id. Cat. 



B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 226. no. 1367(1849); Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 151; Blyth, Ibis, 



1865, p. 30; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1866, p. 129; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 420. 

 Cinnyris flammaxillaris, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 408. no. 45 (1850). 

 Cyrtostomus flammaxillaris, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 739. no. 1080 (1856) ; 



Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 462. 

 Arachnechthra flammaxillaris, Walden, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 541 ; id. Ibis, 1870, p. 24 ; Swinhoe, 



Ibis, 1870, p. 239; Walden, Ibis, 1871, p. 167; Hume, Nests & Eggs Ind. B. p. 154 



(1873); id. Str. F. 1874, p. 473; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 348. 

 Arachnothera flammaxillaris, Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 112. no. 1383 (1869). 



cj ad. supra olivaceus : alis saturate bruimeis olivaceo lavatis : rectricibus nigris, externis quatuor albo termi- 

 natis, extirnis latius : gutture saturate metallice violaceo, lateraliter et infra chalybeo nitente, pectore 

 sulfureo : torque duplici pectorali sordide coccineo et nigro : fasciis pectoralibus flavis aurantiaco-rubro 

 lavatis : rostro et pedibus nigris : iride saturate brunnea. 



2 ad. mari siinilis, sed nusquam metallica : supercilio indistincto flavo. 



Hab. in regione Burmanensi meridionali et inde ad insulam Malaccensem " Penang " dictam. 



Adult Male. Upper parts olive; wings dark brown, the feathers edged with olive; tail black, the four outer 

 feathers on each side with white ends, broadest on the outer ones ; on the forehead occasionally a few 

 metallic violet feathers ; feathers in front of the eye black ; cheeks steel-blue ; chin and throat deep 

 metallic violet, shading into steel-blue on the sides and base of the plastron ; breast rich sulphur-yellow ; 

 a well-defined maroon and black pectoral band ; pectoral tufts deep yellow, shaded with orange ; under 

 surface of the wings brown, with the inner margins of the quills and the coverts white, the latter shaded 

 with yellow; bill and legs black; irides dark brown. Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 07, wing 215, 

 tail T45, tarsus 0'55. 



Adult Female. Similar in plumage to the adult male, but with no metallic portions to the plumage ; entire 

 underparts, as well as the cheeks and a partial eyebrow, rich sulphur-yellow. Total length 35 inches, 

 culmen - 65, wing 19, tail 12, tarsus 055. 



Hab. Arracan and Southern Burmah; from the towns of Akyab and Arracan into Siam, and thence through 

 Tenasserim and the western Malay provinces to the island of Penang. 



The present species may be distinguished from C. andamanicus by the characters I gave while 

 treating of that bird, and from the Hainan form C. rhizophorce by the forehead not being metallic 

 blue, although occasionally a few of the feathers on this part are tipped with that colour. The 

 breast, however, is always slightly darker than in either of these two other species. 



