4 MALAYAN ORtflTIIOLOGY. 



days on the island, I cannot speak from personal experience. 



A"STHREPTES MALACCENSIS (Scop.). 



Common in the gardens of Singapore ; also, like the other Honey- 

 suckers, partial to cocoa-nut groves, where insects are abundant. 

 At Singapore, it was very plentiful in the neighbourhood of the 

 barracks ; but I also got specimens in all the western States of the 

 peninsula. 



They flit about the trees, searching among the clusters of nuts 

 for insects. 



AXTHREPTES SIMPLEX. 



My specimens are all from Malacca. 



Antheeptes hypogrammica (Mull.). 



All mine are from Malacca. 



Chalcoparia singalensis (G-m.). 



Very common in Malacca collections, but personally I shot 

 very few specimens. 



Cinnyris pectoralts (Horsf.) 



Fairly plentiful throughout the Straits. I frequently shot speci- 

 mens on the island of Singapore, also got several from Malacca. 

 The following notes are from my book : — 



"Tanglin, Singapore, 18th April, 1879. Just in front and within 

 ten yards of the verandah running round our quarters, a pair of 

 Honey-suckers have built their nest, a long bottle-shaped structure 

 of moss, cobweb, and other soft materials, suspended from the end 

 of a branch quite thirty feet from the ground. The birds are con- 

 tinually hunting under the eaves of our bungalow, picking insects 

 out of the thatch, and returning with them to the nest ; so I sup- 

 pose it contains young. This morning I timed one of the parent 

 birds make three visits to the nest, with its bill full of insects, in 

 less than a minute. They are Cinnyris peetoralis, Horsf. I often 

 have excellent chances of examining them, as they frequently flutter 

 about the verandah within a couple of paces of where I stand. T 

 do not like to molest them while rearing their young, but after the 

 nestlings have flown will cut down the nest." 



Again, T find : — 



" Singapore, 26th April, 1879. This morning I stood close to, 

 and watched for a long time, a young Honey-sucker which was 



