1870.] A Contribution to Malayan Ornithology. 301 



My collector obtained in the Wellesley Province and on Penang 

 4 males, but strangely not a single £ which appears to be rare, or 

 difficult to procure, and was unknown toTemminck. Miiller 

 and Schlegel in their Bijdragen der Honigvogels v. d. ind. 

 Archip. p. 59, pi. 10, fig. 5 (Verh. over Nat, Gesch. &c, door G. J. 

 Temniinck, Zoolog. 1839-1844) figure and describe the $ of 

 this species as being above brownish black, sides of neck and head 

 and of the breast, front and top of head, posterior rump and upper 

 tail coverts, chin and throat mostly red, lower breast and vent 

 whitish. The same authors state that the young bird resembles 

 the $ during the first year. 



38. Arachnechthra flammaxillaris, B 1 y t h. 



J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. XIV, p. 557 ; Oat. p. 226 ; W a 1 d e n in Proc. 

 7i. S. L. 1866, p. 541 and Ibis 1870, VI, p. 24. 



I obtained only one $ specimen from the Wellesley Province. The 

 feathers on chin and throat have a purple metallic lustre, at the 

 sides slightly, but in front of the reddish brown pectoral semicircle, 

 distinctly greenish metallic. Laterally the feathers are also some- 

 what mixed with dingy green. In other respects, the specimen is 

 identical with the Arracan and Burmese form; wing 2" ; tail If"; 

 bill at front \%" ; tarsus T %. 



Vise. Walden's remarks (1. cit. p. 542) respecting the possi- 

 ble identity of this species with A. juytdaris of Linne* will, I 

 believe, soon call for a revision of the nomenclature. Both species 

 certainly are very closely allied, if not identical. 



39. Nectarophila [Anthreptes] Malaccensis, Scop. 

 Walden, Ibis, 1870, VI, p. 47, cum synon. — JYectarmia lepida, 



Lath. (Synop. I, 298) et auctorum. — N. malaccetisis apud B 1 y t h 

 Cat. p. 225. 



This species appears to be common in the Wellesley Province ; 

 $ wing 21"— 2 T 9 /; tail If" ; bill at front §", from gape* f", or a lit- 

 tle more ; tarsus f " ;— 9 , wing 2 T V ; tail 1 f" ; bill at front T y, from 

 gape very nearly | ff ; tarsus f". 



Horsfield's iV. javanica (Linn. Trans. XIII, p. 167) is 

 usually considered to be the same bird, and as the identifica- 

 tion of the Javanese bird has, I think, first been suggested 



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