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AEACHNOKAPHIS FLAVIGASTRA. 



(GREATER YELLOW-EARED SPIDER-HUNTER.) 



Anthreptes flavig aster, Eytou, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 105. 



Arachnothera flavigastra, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 981 (1843) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 460 ; 



Pelzeln, Eeise Novara, Vog. p. 53 (1865); Tweeddale, Ibis, 1877, p. 300. 

 Arachnothera flavigaster, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 557 (1845), xv, p. 43 (1846); Gray, Gen. 



B. i, p. 99, no. 5 (1847); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 222, no. 1342 (1849); Horsf. & 



Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. ii, p. 728, no. 1058 (1856); Gray, Hand-1. B. i, p. Ill, 



no. 1369 (1869); Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 85. 

 Arachnothera latiivstiis, Reichb. Handb. Scansorise, p. 316, no. 747, pi. 593, figs. 4024-25 



(1854). 

 Arachnothera eytonii, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genova, v, p. 182 (1874). 

 Arachnothera simillima, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 487. 



c? ad. olivaceus : alis caudaque magis aurato-brunneis : plaga, anteoculari fusca, : plumis oculo circumdatis 

 flavis : genis posticis quoque flavis : fascia parva, lineari a rostri basi orta, nigricante : corpore subtus 

 olivascenti-flavo, plumis plerisque albido medialiter lineatis, abdomine medio et subcaudalibus purius 

 flavis. 



2 ad. haud a mari distinguenda, sed minor. 



Hab. in peninsula Malayana et in insulis " Sumatra" et " Borneo" dictis. 



Adult Male. Upper parts olive-green, including the least series of wing-coverts ; remainder of the wings 

 dark brown, broadly edged and washed with golden olive-colour, which colour alone is visible when the 

 wing is closed ; tail uniform golden olive ; on the side of the head a large yellow patch encircles the 

 eye and extends over the lower portion of the ear-coverts and the hinder part of the cheeks ; the front 

 half of this yellow patch is surrounded by a dusky triangular spot ; from the angle of the gape a narrow 

 blackish line along the upper margin of the cheek ; chin, throat, and sides of the body yellowish olive 

 shading into purer yellow down the centre of the breast and on the thighs, with the abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts entirely yellow of a rather deeper shade; under surface of the wings dark brown, with the 

 inner margins of the quills rufous buff, and the coverts yellowish white mottled with brown ; upper 

 mandible black, lower one pale reddish brown, gape whitish; iris deep brown; eyelids black; legs and 

 feet reddish ochre, claws horny brown. Length 8-8 inches, culmen 1'6, wing 43, tail 2 - 4, tarsus 09. 



Adult Female. Similar in plumage to the male, but smaller. 



Hab. Malay peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



This Spider-hunter may be easily recognized by the feathers surrounding the eye and the lower 

 portion of the ear-coverts being yellow ; in this character it somewhat resembles Arachnothera 



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