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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
306. ANTHEEPTES SIMPLEX. 
THE PLAIN-COLOURED SUN-BIRD. 
Nectarinia simplex, S. Milll. Nat. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. p. 173. Nectar inia 
frontalis, Bl. J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 558. Arachnechthra simplex, Wald. Ibis, 
1870, p, 31. Arachnophila simplex, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 172 ; Tweedd. 
Ibis, 1877, p. 301. Anthreptes xanthochlora, Hume, S. F. iii. p. 320 (foot- 
note). Anthreptes simplex, Shelley, Mon. Nect. pp. xliv, 309, pi. 100 ; Hume 
^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 188 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 90. 
Description. — Male. A large patch on the forehead metallic green ; the 
whole upper plumage and wing-coverts olive-yellow ; tail a deeper tint of 
the same ; quills brown, edged with olive-yellow ; sides of the head ashy 
green ; cheeks_, chin, throat and fore neck greenish ashy ; remainder of 
lower plumage dull oily yellow; under wing-coverts whitish. 
The female differs only in wanting the metallic patch on the forehead. 
Legs and feet pale dirty green ; the bill dark horny brown ; irides 
wood-brown. (Davison.) 
Length 4*5 inches, tail 2*1, wing 2*4, tarsus 'bb, bill from gape '7. The 
female is of the same size. Capt. Shelley and Mr. Hume both assert that the 
female is very much smaller than the male; and the former gentleman 
gives the length of the wing of the male as 2*45 inches and that of the 
wing of the female as 2*15. The female specimens contained in the British 
Museum, however, are not notably different in size from the males in 
the same collection. 
The Plain-coloured Sun-bird appears to be rare in the south of Tenas- 
serim, the only portion of Burmah in which it has yet been met with. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula and is found in Sumatra and 
Borneo. 
Nothing is known of its habits. 
307. ANTHEEPTES MALACCENSIS. 
THE MALACCAN BROWN-THROATED SUN-BIRD. 
Certhia malaccensis. Scop. Del. Faun, et Fl. Insub. ii, p. 91. Certhia lepida, 
Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 298. Anthreptes malaccensis, Wald. Ibis, 1870, p. 47 
(partim) ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 178 (partim) ; Shelley, Mon. Nect. pp. xliv, 315, 
pi. 102 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 186 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 90. Antho- 
tlireptus malaccensis, Bl. B. Burm. p. 142. 
Description. — Male. Forehead, crown, nape, back and sides of the neck 
metallic green or coppery red, according to the light; rump and upper 
tail-coverts metallic violet-purple ; lores and sides of the head dull greenish 
