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SIPARAJA SUN-BIRD. 
Nectarinia Siparaja, Raffles. 
This is characterised in the descriptive catalogue in 
the Transactions of the Linnean Society for 1822, 
and in the subsequent catalogue in the Appendix to 
Sir Stamford Raffles’ Memoirs, N. inysticalis , Temm. 
is quoted as a synonim. The discrepancy in the 
description of the former, and figure of the latter, is, 
in the first, “ abdomen brown in the figure, these 
parts are pure white. From our last species, the 
Rafflesian bird differs in having no yellow on the 
rump, and Temminck’s figure varies both in the 
want of that and in the white under parts. The 
N. Siparaja is from Java and Sumatra, and it is 
probable may be distinct from the continental birds ; 
the union of the other two will rest on the autho- 
rity of the catalogue in the Memoirs. “ This species 
has a blue patch on the forehead, and a stripe of the 
same colour on each side of the neck. The back of 
the head, neck, and upper parts of the back, are 
dark red ; the breast of a lighter red ; the abdomen, 
wings and middle tail-feathers brown, while the tail- 
covers and outer tail-feathers are blue*.” Tem- 
minck’s figure is represented with the whole tail 
blue, and the belly and vent pure white. 
* Trans. Linn. Soc., xiii. p. 299. 
