318 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
or purple ; chin, throat and upper breast brilliant metallic golden bronze ; 
a narrow band bordering this and the lower breast metallic violet-purple ; 
axillary tufts yellow ; remainder of the lower plumage black. 
The female has the forehead, crown and nape brown, edged with grey ; 
upper plumage dull olive-green ; quills brown, edged with the colour of the 
back ; tail black, all but the central feathers broadly tipped with white ; 
the feathers round the eye, the sides of the head, chin and throat pale 
grey ; breast, abdomen and sides of the body yellow ; vent and under tail- 
coverts pale yellowish white. 
Legs and feet black or bluish black ; bill black ; irides dark brown. 
[Davison.) 
Length 5*5 inches, tail 2'1, wing 2'3, tarsus "55, bill from gape '8. The 
female is rather smaller. 
Macklot^s Sun-bird was observed by Mr. Davison as a rare straggler in 
the extreme southern point of Tenasserim at Malewoon, and at Patoe. 
Island further north. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula, and is found in Sumatra, Java, 
Borneo, Celebes and the Philippine Islands. Dr. Tiraud procured one 
specimen in Cochin China. 
This species, according to Mr. Davison, is particularly addicted to the 
flowers of cocoanut-trees and mangroves. He observes that it has much 
the same habits as JEthopyga car a. 
Genus CINNYRIS, Cuvier. 
302. CINNYRIS HASSELTI*. 
VAN HASSELrS SUN-BIRD. 
Certhia brasiliana, Gm. Syst. Nat. \. p. 474. Certhia sperata, Raffi. Trans. Linn. 
Soc. xiii. p. 298. Nectarinia hasseltii, Temm. PI. Col. 376. f. 3. Nectarinia 
phayrei, Bl. J. A. S. B. xii. p. 1008, xiv. p. 657. Leptocoma brasiliana, 
Wald, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 543 ; Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 184. Nectarophila 
brasiliana, Wald. Ibis, 1870, p. 41. Nectarophila hasseltii, Salvad. Ucc. 
Born. p. 177 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 142. Cinnyris hasselti, Shelley, Mon. Nect. 
pp. xxxi, 127, pi. 42 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 197. Cinnyris braziliana, Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 90. 
Description. — Male. Forehead and crown shining golden green ; lores, 
cheeks, ear-coverts, the neck above and at the sides, the upper back, ter- 
tiaries and all the wing- coverts except those near the edge of the wing 
* Gmelin's name gives such a very erroneous impression of this bird's habitat, that I 
think it may be very justly superseded. 
