302 A Contribution to Malayan Ornithology. [No. 4, 



by M ii 1 1 e r and Schlegel, it is probably correct, though 

 Horsfield's description does not speak in favour of it. He 

 calls the chin and throat ferruginous, while Latham's ex- 

 pression " rubro-fusca" is the more correct. Horsfield's 

 " lower coverts of the wings are rufous" is doubtful, for in the Mala- 

 yan bird, the longer scapulars and the shortest coverts are termi- 

 nally rufous brown, the longer coverts of the secondaries and ter- 

 tiaries are edged on the outer webs partially brown, partially 

 greenish. Further on, Horsfield says " tail is black with a 

 greenish lustre above, fulliginous and paler underneath." In ITa- 

 laccensis we have the tail above black, the two central tail feathers 

 edged with purplish green on both webs, the following only on the 

 outer web and the last feathers uniform dull black, all ashy black 

 below. The sides of the head and neck are dingy green in the 

 Malayan bird. However all these variations do not appear to 

 be of great importance, for they would hardly indicate more 

 than local races of the same species. 



The female is above dingy green, wings and tail dusky brown, 

 more or less edged with green, below yellow, brightest and purest 

 on the middle breast, somewhat tinged with green on the throat, 

 the two mustachial streaks are indicated by pure yellow, eyelid 

 especially the lower one, distinctly yellow. 



Fam. ARACHNOTHERIDjE. 

 40. Arachnotheka modesta, E y t o n. 



Anthreptes modesta, E y t o n, Proc. Z. S. Lond., 1839, p. 105. — 

 Arach. modesta et latirostris, B 1 y t h, Jour. A. S. B., vol. XH, 

 p. 981-982. 



Above uniform yellowish green, duller on the wings and tail, the 

 feathers on the forehead centered dark ; the first two quills almost 

 wholly brownish black, the others only on the inner webs, the last 

 tertiaries wholly green ; shoulder edge of wing yellow ; tail feathers 

 with a brownish black, almost terminal band, and the outer fea- 

 thers mostly of the same color on the inner webs, the three outer 

 feathers on each side with a subterminal large white spot on the 

 inner webs. Below, greenish ashy, the feathers on the chin, throat 

 and breast very distinctly centred dark ; lower tail coverts yellowish 



