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yellow, with an eyebrow, cheeks, and lower portion of the ear-coverts pale-yellow ; entire underparts 

 yellow ; under surface of the wings brown, with the inner margins of the quills and the coverts white, 

 the latter partially shaded with yellow. Length 4 inches, culmen 075, wing l - 95, tail 1*4, tarsus 055. 



Hab. Flores and Timor. 



The Orange-breasted Sun-bird belongs to the "Cyrtostomus" group. The male is readily distin- 

 guished by the orange-red colour of the breast ; the female, however, possesses a yellow breast, 

 and is not so easily recognized from the other closely allied species ; the bill is, perhaps, the best- 

 marked character, being longer than in C. pectoralis, the only closely allied form found within 

 the limits of its range. 



Temminck, who first described this species, gave the locality Amboyna for his type specimen ; 

 but this was evidently an error, as S. Midler has already pointed out. Mr. G. R. Gray, again 

 (P. Z. S. 1860, p. 348), refers to Amboyna as a habitat, but was evidently copying Temminck. 



It has been recorded by S. Miiller from Timor, Poeloe, and Samao. From Timor and Flores 

 1 have examined several specimens collected by Mr. Wallace ; and in the former of these islands 

 it is the only species of Sun-bird at present known, while in the latter are also to be found 

 C. pectoralis and Anthreptes malaccensis. 



It is a rather rare bird in collections ; and nothing has, as yet, been recorded respecting its 

 habits. 



The specimens here figured and described are an adult male and female collected by 

 Mr. Wallace in the island of Flores, and now in my own possession. 



