THE BANDED SUN-BIRD. 
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Genus ANTHREPTES, Swains. 
305. ANTHREPTES HYPOGEAMMICA. 
THE BANDED SUN-BIRD. 
Nectarinia hypogrammica, S. Mull. Nat. Gesch. Land- en Volhenk. p. 173. An- 
threptes nuchalis, Bl. J. A. S. B. xii. p. 980. Araclineclith.ra hypogram- 
mica, Wald. Ibis, 1870, p. 30. Hypogramma nuchalis, Salvad. Ucc. Born. 
p. 172 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 319. Anthreptes hypogrammica, Shelleij, Mon. 
Neet. pp. xliv, 305, pi. 98 ; Hume Sr Dav. S. F. vi. p. 178 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 90. 
Description. — Male. Forehead^ crown_, nape^ sides o£ the head and neck, 
back, scapulars and wing- coverts yellowish green ; rump, upper tail- 
coverts and a collar on the upper back metallic blue ; tail blackish brown, 
the two or three outer pairs of feathers narrowly tipped with white ; quills 
brown, edged with the colour of the back ; chin, throat, breast, abdomen 
and sides of the body yellow, streaked with greenish brown ; vent, flanks 
and under tail-coverts greenish brown. 
The female wants the blue collar, and the rump and upper tail-coverts 
are of the same colour as the back. 
Legs and feet greenish brown or dark plumbeous green ; the bill 
horny black, and, in the male, the gape dull yellow ; irides dark brown. 
[Davison.) 
Length 5*5 inches, tail 2, wing 2'6, tarsus -6, bill from gape '9. The 
female is a little smaller. 
The Banded Sun-bird, according to Mr. Davison, is found in the extreme 
south of Tenasserim, where it appears to be only a straggler. Subse- 
quently, however, Messrs. Hume and Davison informed Capt. Shelley that 
it was found only south of Mergui, from which I would gather that this 
Sun-bird ranges up the Division as far north as that town, and is not con- 
fined to the extreme south only. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula, and is found in the islands of 
Sumatra and Borneo. 
Mr. Davison says : — The present species occurs (mostly in pairs, though 
sometimes singly) for the most part only in the forest or on its outskirts : 
occasionally, of course, it does occur in gardens, where it may be seen 
haunting trees and shrubs that are in flower, feeding on the nectar at times, 
but often hunting the fohage also for insects. The note, like that of C, 
malaccensiSj is a feeble chirrup.'^ 
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