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ANTHKEPTES SIMPLEX. 



(PLAITNT-COLOURED SUN-BIRD.) 



Nectarinia simplex, S. Mull. Natuurl. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. p. 173 (1843) ; Mull. & Schl. 

 op. cit. Zool. Aves, p. 62, pi. 8. fig. 4 (1846) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 98 (1847) ; Low, Sarawak, 

 p. 410 (1848); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 225. no. 1362 (1849). 



Nectarinia frontalis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 558 (1845). 



Cinnyris simplex, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 408. no. 39 (1850). 



Arachnoraphis simplex, Reichb. Handb. Scansoriae, p. 313. no. 736, pi. 594. fig. 4028 

 (1854). 



Araclinothera simplex, Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 111. no. 1370 (1869). 



Araclmeehthra simplex, Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 31. 



Arachnophila simplex, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. v. p. 172 (1874). 



Anthreptes simplex, Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 319. no. 232 quart. (1875). 



Anthreptes xanthochlora, Hume, torn. cit. p. 320. no. 232 quint. 



<S ad. supra flavicanti-olivaceus : fronte saturate metallice viridi : capite laterali cinerascente, genis et regione 

 parotica olivaceo lavatis : alis saturate brunneis, tectricibus alarum minimis et medianis et remigum 

 marginibus flavicanti-olivaceis : subtus cineraseens, abdomine vix flavo adumbrato : mento gulaque 

 albidis : fasciis pectoralibus sulfureis : rostro corneo-brunneo : pedibus sordide vireseentibus : iride 

 rubrk. 



2 simibs mari adulto, sed fronte metallica, et fasciis pectoralibus absentibus. 



Hab. in regione Malayana. 



Adult Male. Upper parts yellowish olive ; forehead and front half of tbe crown deep metallic green ; 

 feathers in front of the eyes dusky ash-colour ; cheeks and ear-coverts olive tinted with ashy ; wings 

 dark brown, with the least and median series of coverts and broad edges to all the other feathers 

 yeUowish olive; underparts ashy shaded with yellow; chin and throat almost white; pectoral tufts 

 sulphur-yellow; under surface of the quills ashy brown, with the inner margins nearly white; under 

 wing-coverts white, washed with yellow. Total length 4 - 4 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 2'45, tail 2 - 0, 

 tarsus 0'65. 



Adult Female. Similar in plumage to the adult male, but without the metallic forehead or the pectoral 

 tufts. Total length 4 inches, culmen 055, wing 2'15, tail 1"65, tarsus 0"6. 



Hab. Malay peninsula, from Mergui, Southern Tenasserim, to Singapore; also Sumatra and Borneo. 



Mr. G. R. Gray (Hand-1. B. no. 1370) enters, this species as inhabiting Lombock; but no other 

 naturalist has recorded it from that island, and the only specimen in the British Museum that I 

 am aware of was procured last year from Borneo. 



Mr. Hume, with his usual promptitude to ascertain the real specific value of a recently 



