1845.] or little known Species of Birds. 557 



To commence with the genus Arachnoihera : my A. latirostris (p. 982) 

 must be referred to A. modesta, (Eyton, p. 981) ; and of the other spe- 

 cies briefly described by that gentleman, who erroneously referred them 

 both to Anthreptes of Swainson, the Society has now received two fine 

 specimens from Malacca, which may be thus described : 



A.flavigaster, (Eyton). Length about eight inches, of wing four, and 

 tail two inches ; bill to forehead one and three-quarters ; and tarse seven- 

 eighths. Colour plain olive-green above, paler below, and yellowish on the 

 belly and under tail-coverts : feathers around the eyes, and a tuft near 

 the angle of the jaw, brighter yellow : bill dusky, paler beneath, and the 

 legs have probably been bright yellow. A young specimen is smaller, with 

 the wing three inches and five- eighths long, and the rest in proportion : 

 the plumage is less compact, but the colouring of the upper parts is 

 brighter olive-green, and of the abdominal region much brighter siskin- 

 yellow : in other respects it is similar.* 



Nectarinia mahrattensis, (p. 978,) will bear, as its earliest specific name, 

 that of asiatica, (Lath.) It is also the Certhia mahrattensis, Lath., and 

 C. saccharina of Shaw.f The range of this species extends eastward 

 into Arracan, where also the N. Gouldice is met with ; but not zeyloni- 

 ca, which is replaced by Hasseltii, as asiatica there begins to be by 

 flammaxillaris, which last, in its turn, is replaced towards the Straits 

 by pectoralis. 



N. jugularis, Vieillot, apud nos, (p. 979,) is a new species, and may 

 now rank as N. flammaxillaris, nobis : the length of its tail, misprint- 

 ed " under half an inch," should have been given as under an inch and 

 a half. The allied N. pectoralis, Horsf., is common at Malacca, and 

 in the Nicobar islands : a specimen in spirit from the latter group 

 measuring four inches long, by six in spread of wing. 



Nect (v. Anthreptes) phoenicotis, (p. 979,) ascends so high as Tip- 

 perah ; and also certain other Malayan birds (as Calomis cantor\ and 

 Brachypodius melanocephalus) occur there, which do not appear to 

 have been met with further to the west. 



Nect. Phayrei, nobis, p. 1008, proves (as I formerly suspected) to 



* The Society has now two, if not three, additional species of this genus from Java, 

 which require more study than I can at present bestow on them. 



f N. strigula, (Hodg.) is the young. 



% Lord Arthur Hay has pointed out to me some distinctions between the Tipperah 

 and Arracan Calomis, and the closely allied species of the Straits. 



