140 Birds of Burma. 



# 484. 0. TEISTUIEOSTEIS. 

 0. tenuirostris, nobis, J. A. S. B. xv. 48. 



Arakan, Pegu, Martaban. Apparently not common, and distinguished 

 from the preceding species by having a much more slender bill. 



[Tonghoo (Z.) ; Thayet Myo, Karen nee {W. B.) ; Kollidoo (D.).] 



Fam. BTectarinidss. 



Sunbirds. 



*485. Abachkotheea magna (J. 223). 

 Arakan, Tenasserim. 



*486. A. AIJKATA. 

 A. aurata, nobis, J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 416. 



Tonghoo. 



[Karen hills, at 2500 feet {W. B.). Jerdon (B. Ind. i. p. 861) refers 

 to an Arachnothera phayrei, Blyth, from Pegu. I cannot find that Blyth 

 ever published any such title. Jerdon states that A. phayrei is very close to 

 A. magna. A. aurata is noted in my private memoranda (written some years 

 ago) on Jerdon's work, as being intended: a correction almost certainly 

 entered, as in many other instances, after personal reference to Blyth or 

 Jerdon, although the circumstance has escaped my memory. There is a 

 Nectarinia phayrei, Blyth, a title Jerdon may have had in his mind. As 

 Blyth does not include A. phayrei in this list, it is most probable that he 

 never published such a title, and that it occurs (7. c.) through a slip of the 

 pen.] 



♦487. A. pusilla (J. 224). 



Tippera, Arakan, Tenasserim, Pinang, Malacca, Sumatra. 



[Tonghoo {W. JR.). This species must take the specific title of longi- 

 rostra, Lath., Ind. Orn. i. p. 299. One Tonghoo example, shot in April, has 

 the orange pectoral tufts fully developed ; while in another ( & ), obtained on 

 the 20th of that month, they are absent. Javan individuals can hardly be 

 separated.] 



[488. A. MODESTA. 

 Anthreptes ntodesta, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 105. 

 Meeta Myo (D.). Thus identified by Mr. Hume.] 



