347 



AKACHNOTHEEA MAGNA. 



(THE LARGE INDIAN SPIDER-HUNTER.) 



Cinnyris magna, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. 1837, p. 272. 



Arachnothera inornata, Horsf. (nee Temm.) P. Z. S. 1839, p. 167, no. 94. 



Arachnothera magna, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1843, p. 981, 1846, p. 43 ; Gray, Cat. Hodgs. Mamm. 

 & Birds Nepal, p. 60 (1846) ; id. Gen. B. i, p. 99, no. 4 (1847) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 

 p. 221, no. 1341 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. Av. i, p. 410, no. 5 (1850); Cab. Mus. Hein. i, p. 106, 

 no. 577 (1850); Eeichb. Handb. Scansorige, p. 316, no. 746, pi. 593, fig. 4023 (1854); 

 Licht. Nomencl. At. p. 55 (1854) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. ii, p. 727, 

 no. 1058 (1856); Jerd. B. India, i, p. 360 (1862); Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 414; Bulger, 

 Ibis, 1869, p. 159 ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i, p. Ill, no. 1376 (1869) ; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B. 

 xxxix. p. 98 (1870); Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 473, 1875, p. 85; Blyth & Walden, Cat. 

 Mamm. & Birds Burma, p. 140, no. 485 (1875) ; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 347. 



Arachnothera chrysojjus, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844); id. J. A. S. B. xxiv, 

 p. 575 (1855). 



\ Arachnothera affinis, Blanford, Ibis, 1870, p. 467. 



6 ad. suprk olivascenti-flavus, plumis medialiter nigris, quasi striatis : capitis et colli lateribus pallidioribus 

 et angustius striolatis : pileo et tectricibus alarum minimis et medianis latius medialiter nigris, olivas- 

 centi-flavo marginatis : tectricibus majoribus et remigibus saturate brunneis extus olivascenti-flavis, 

 secundariis intimis omnino olivascenti-flavis : rectricibus eodem modo coloratis, ad apicem pallidioribus 

 et subterminaliter saturate brunneo transfasciatis : corpore subtus fulvescente, plumis omnibus distincte 

 nigro medialiter lineatis : subcaudalibus magis flavicantibus, basaliter olivaceis : subalaribus albidis, 

 marginalibus flavis medialiter triquetrim saturate brunneis : remigibus infra brunneis, intus albidis : 

 maxilla nigra, mandibula saturate brunnea : pedibus aurantiacis : iride saturate brunne&. 



2 ad. hand a mari distinguenda. 



Hab. in montibus Himalayanis orientalibus et in montibus Assamicis et Burmanicis. 



. Adult Male. Upper parts olive-yellow with black centres to the feathers ; sides of the head and sides of the 

 neck the same, but slightly paler and the black centres to the feathers rather smaller ; the crown, 

 lesser and median series of wing-coverts are, more properly speaking, black, each feather with a clear, 

 sharply defined, olive-yellow margin ; the greater coverts and the quills have their inner webs dark 

 brown and their outer ones olive-yellow, which latter colour pervades both webs of a few of the inner- 

 most quills; tail olive-yellow with a broad, subterminal, irregularly shaped bar of dark brown, the 

 feathers slightly paler beyond this bar on their inner webs ; underparts buff with a broad clear black 

 streak down the centre of each feather ; under tail-coverts yellower and with all the basal portions of 

 the feathers olive ; under surface of the wings brown with the inner margins of the quills and the 

 coverts white, the marginal ones shading into sulphur-yellow and having dark-brown triangular centres ; 

 bill, upper mandible black, lower one and irides dark brown; legs orange. Total length 7 inches, 

 culmen l - 6, wing 3 - 7, tail 2 - 2, tarsus 0"8. 



