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ANTHREPTES PHCENICOTIS. 



(RUBY-CHEEKED SUN-BIRD.) 



Green Warbler, Brown, Zool. III. p. 82, pi. 32, fig. 2 (1776). 



Cingalese Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii, p. 474 (1783). 



Yellow-bellied Creeper, Lath. Syn. Supp. i, p. 131 (1787). 



Motacilla singalensis, Gmel. S. N. i, p. 964, no. 86 (1788). 



Sylvia cingalensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii, p. 533, no. 92 (1790). 



Certhia lepida, Lath. Ind. Orn. i, p 299, no. 60, var. /3 (1790). 



Nectarinia phcenicotis, Temm. PI. Col. 108, fig. 1, 388, fig. 2 (1824); S. Mull. & Schl. Verh. 



Nat. Gesch. Aves, p. 63, no. 15 (1846); Low, Sarawak, p. 410 (1848); Blyth, Cat. B. 



Mus. A. S. B. p. 225, no. 1363 (1849); Sclater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 220. 

 Cinnyris phcenicotis, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii, p. 38(1828); id. Traite d'Orn. i, p. 298; Bp. 



Consp. Av. i, p. 408, no. 40 (1850). 

 Anthreptes rectirostris, Blyth, J. A. S. B. x, p. 925 (1841). 

 Anthreptes phcenicotis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 979 (1843), xiv, p. 557 (1845); Licht. 



Nomencl. p. 56 (1854). 

 Nectarinia cingalensis, Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 99, no. 96 (1847); Motl. & Dillw. Contr. Nat. Hist. 



Labuan, p. 16 (1855); Pelzeln, Reise Novara, Vog. i, p. 52 (1865). 

 Chalcoparia cingalensis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i, p. 103, note (1850) ; Bp. Comptes Rendus, xxxix, 



p. 265 (1854); Reichb. Handb. Scansorise, p. 304, no. 713, pi. 587, figs. 3987-88 (1854); 



Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 17; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 106; Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 86; 



Armstrong, Str. F. 1876, p. 313. 

 Chalcoparia phcenicotis, Bp. Comptes Rendus, xxxix, p. 265 (1854); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. 



B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii, p. 747 (1856) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 463 ; Blyth & Walden, Cat. 



Mamm. & Birds Burma, p. 142, no. 497(1875); Tweeddale, Ibis, 1877, p. 303; Oates, 



Str. F. 1877, p. 147. 

 Anthreptes singalensis, Walden, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 543 ; Briigg. Abhandl. Ver. Bremen, v, 



p. 458 (1877); Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 28. 

 Promerops singalensis, Gray, Hand-1. B. i, p. Ill, no. 1364 (1869). 

 Chalcoparia singalensis, Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 48 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, v, p. 180 



(1874); Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 300. 



d ad. supra metallice viridis, eollo laterali, tectricibus alarum minimis et medianis dorso concoloribus, 

 tectricibus majoribus nigris metallice viridi marginatis : remigibus nigris, metallice violaceo extiis 

 marginatis : rectricibus nigris viridi limbatis : loris nigricantibus : regione postica metallice coccinea, 

 infrh vitta conspicua metallice lilacina marginata : genis et corpore subtiis lsete cervinis : corpore 

 reliquo subtiis viridescenti-flavo : subalaribus albis : rostro nigro : pedibus viridescenti-corneis : iride 

 cocciuea. 



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