CINNYEIS PECTOEALIS. 



(MALAYAN YELLOW- BREASTED SUN-BIRD.) 



Nectarinia pectoralis, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 167 (1820); Vigors, Mem. Raffles, p. 67o 



(1831); Jard. Monogr. Sun-birds, pp. 226, 266, pi. 25. fig. 1 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 370 



(1846); Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 98 (1847); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 225. no. 1366 



(1849); Motley & Dillwyn, Nat. Hist. Labuan, p. 15 (1855) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 319 ; 



Sclat. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 220 ; Wallace, torn. cit. p. 486 ; Pelzeln, Reise Novara, Vog. 



pp. 52, 161 (1865); Tytler & Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 322; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 334. 

 Pectoral Creeper, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. iv. p. 266. no. 75 (1822). 

 Nectarinia eximia, Temm. PL Col. 138. figs. 1, 2 (1823) ; S. Mull. & Schl. Verh. Nat. Gesch. 



Ned. Overz. Bez. Zool. Av. p. 61. no. 10 (1846). 

 Cinnyris ornatus, Less. Diet. Sc. Nat. i. p. 15 (1827, ex Temm. PL Col. 138. figs. 1, 2); id. 



Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 36 (1828). 

 Cinnyris hcteoventer, Less. Trait. d'Orn. p. 298. no. 29 (1831) ; Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 



1853, p. 488. 

 Cinnyris pectoralis, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 408. no. 43 (1850); Bernstein, J. f. 0. 1859, p. 279 ; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 106. 

 Cyrtostomus pectoralis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 105(1850); Reichb. Handb. Scansorise, p. 307. 



no. 722, pi. 570. figs. 3891-92 (1854); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 739. 



no. 1079 (1856); Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 155 (1873); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. 



Genova, v. p. 170 (1874). 

 Arachnothera pectoralis, Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 112. no. 1385 (1869). 

 Arachnechthra pectoralis, Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 25; Ball, Str. F. 1873, p. 64; Hume, Str. 



F. 1874, p. 196. 



<S ad. supra olivascenti-fiavus : fronte lata chalybea : alis caudaque lit in C. flammaxillari coloratis : subtus 

 lsete flavus : gutture metallice violaceo, lateraliter anguste chalybeo : fasciis pectoralibus lsete flavis : 

 rostro pedibusque nigris : iride saturate brunnea. 



5 ad. mari similis, sed gutture et jugulo metallicis absentibus : supercilio pallide flavo. 



Hab. in insulis Nicobaricis, in peninsula Malaccensi et in insulis " Sumatra," " Sunda," " Java," " Madura," 

 "Lombock," "Flores," "Borneo," "Labuan" dictis. 



Adult Male. Upper parts olive-yellow ; forehead, front half of the crown, a partial eyebrow, and the cheeks 

 violet shaded steel-blue ; a black patch in front of the eye ; wings dark brown, the feathers edged with 

 olive-yellow ; tail black, the four outer feathers on each side with white ends, broadest on the outer 

 feathers; beneath rich yellow ; chin and throat deep metallic violet narrowly edged on the sides with 

 steel-blue, and margined at the base with a few maroon feathers ; pectoral tufts very deep bright yellow ; 

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



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