In one of Count Salvadori's articles upon the Sun-birds of the Papuan region (Atti R. Ace. 

 Torino, xii, p. 320), he writes : — " Due maschi, forse piu adulti degli altri, uno di Buru ed un 

 altro delle Isole Kei, hanno il pileo tinto di nerastro splendente." 



He further remarks that he has examined twenty-seven specimens from Bouru collected by 

 Bruijn and Beccari, thirteen from Amboyna, one from Ceram Lant, and six from the Kei Islands. 

 He suggests that probably Wallace's Cinnyris, n. sp. (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, xx, p. 473), 

 collected in the Kei Islands, should be referred to this species, while the Nectarinia zenobia, Gray 

 (P. Z. S. 1859, p. 155), from Dorey should be referred to C. frenatus, to which species sixty 

 specimens collected by D'Albertis, Beccari, and Bruijn all belong. For a similar reason he 

 believes that the locality Aru Islands, mentioned by Von Rosenberg (J. f. O. 1864, p. 123), is 

 likewise incorrect, as all the specimens collected there by Beccari belong to C. frenatus. He 

 further observes that C. zenobia and C. frenatus apparently are not found on the same islands. 

 In my article upon C. frenatus I mention by error the locality Ceram for that species on the 

 faith of the specimen which I have here figured and described as the adult female of this species, 

 now in the Marquis of Tweeddale's magnificent collection. The adult male here figured and 

 described was also collected in Ceram by Mr. Wallace, and is in my own cabinet. 



Lesson's type came from Amboyna, where it was killed in the mountains of Soya ; and in 

 this island, according to S. M tiller, it is not uncommon among the farm inclosures and sparsely 

 covered hills. 



The description oiCerthia cirrhata, Lath. (Ind. Orn. i. p. 299), agrees well with this species. 

 That description was taken from his " Tufted Creeper," which was described from one of Lady 

 Impey's drawings, said to have the " head, neck, and back deep olive, the feathers edged with 

 dusky, primary quills brown, belly and tail black, on each side of the breast a tuft of yellow 

 feathers, legs black. Inhabits Bengal." 



It would appear from the description that the throat of the " Tufted Creeper " was olive, 

 which is not the case with any known Black-breasted Sun-bird ; and I think it therefore probable 

 that this part was either hidden in the figure or that it was overlooked in the description. The 

 locality, Bengal, is certainly an error ; for undoubtedly it should not be referred to C. asiaticus, 

 as that bird always loses the black breast in its moult before it assumes the dull plumage on the 

 back, and, besides, the yellow pectoral tufts always disappear in the moult, before the back 

 becomes olive. 



The name, however, appears to be of little real importance, as the description is inaccurate 

 if intended for this species, and therefore should not, in my opinion, be used. 



An immature male of this species in the Paris Museum, collected during the voyage of the 

 'Astrolabe,' is labelled C. melanog aster. It differs from the adult in the breast and abdomen 

 being yellow mottled all over with black feathers. 



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