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Birds of Celebes: Nectariniidae. 
d. Promerops flavostriata (1) Grray, HL. 1869, I, 110, Nr. 1349 (nee sjni.). 
Aethopyga flavostriata (1) Wald., Ibis 1870, 35‘, (2) Salvad., Ibis 1871, 248; (3) Wald., 
Tr. Z. S. Vni, 1872, 71; (4) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VII, 659; (V) 
Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 53, pi. (1877); (6) Salvad., xitti Ac. Sc. Tor. 1877, XH, 
314; (7) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 132; (8) W. Bias., .1. f. O. 1883, 119, 138; (9) Gadow, 
Cat. B. IX, 1884, 23; (10) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 554; (11) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. 
Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 10; (12) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 152; (13) id., ib. 1897, 161. 
e. Nectarinia sp. ? (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIII, 71. 
/'. Aethopyga beccarii (I) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VII, 659, pi. XVIII, fig. 1, 2; 
(2) id., Atti Ac. Sc. Tor. 1877, XH, 315, 316 (note). 
“Tampanisi randang”, near Tondano, Nat. Coll. 
“Tjui merah”, Manado, Guillem. 10, Nat. Coll. 
“Kios-raa”, TulabeUo, Bosenb. b 3. 
Figures and descriptions. Sbelley V; Wallace b I', Salvador! f I’, Briiggemann i 2; 
Gadow 9. 
Adult male. Sinciput and a long submalar stripe metallic violot-blue-black; rest of 
head, ear-coverts, neck, back, scapulars, and smaller wing-coverts dark 
scarlet, with dusky black bases to the feathers; wings dusky, the greater coverts 
and quills margined with dark scarlet like the back; rump light yellow; tail black, 
the upper coverts and a broad fringe to the rectrices metallic violet-blue; malar 
streak, chin, throat, and breast scarlet, the last with whitish and yellowish bases 
to the feathers, the chin and throat striated with straw yellow; remaining under 
parts dusky greenish ohve; under wing-coverts white; edge of wing varied with 
brown; quills below shining dusky, inner edges whitish (near Tondano, [cf] ad., 
Vin.— IX. 92, Nat. Coll: C 10819; Eurukan, ad., 8. VIII. 84, Platen in Mus. 
Nehrkorn, Nr. 958). 
Iris brown; bill brown, below lighter; feet brown (Platen). 
Female. Above olivaceous green, below more ocbraceous; the black centres of the feathers 
of the head giving a squamose appearance ; mantle, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, tail, 
edges of reniiges and of wing-coverts chiefly red, the tips of the feathers (except of 
the remiges) more ocbraceous or olivaceous; under wing-coveids light yellow [Q, 
between Ussu and Lake Matanna, S. E. Central Celebes: Sarasin Coll). 
Young male. Eesemblcs the female, but Capt. Shelley believes the latter is never quite so 
red. Eew females in which the sex has been anatomically ascertained are known. 
Measurements (7 in adult male dress). Wing 54 — 57 mm; tail 40 — 47; bill from nostril 
14 — 15.5; tarsus 14 c. An adult from Lake Towuti has the wing 52 mm 
(Sarasin Coll). 
Eggs. “The egg in my collection from the south of Celebes has a grey-white gi’ound-colour, 
with pale grey shell- spots and black-brown superjacent spots, some of which are 
round, others straight vermifonn and are equally distributed over the whole egg. The 
measurements are: 15 X 10.5 mm” (Nehrkorn MS.). 
Two eggs in the Sarasin Coll, (mother-bird accompanying them), unfortunately 
much damaged, answer to Mr. Nehrkorn’s descilption. 
Nest. The nest sent with the above two eggs is a pendant, pear-shaped structure, attached 
to a small thorn-bearing twig, the entrance-hole in the side. It is composed chiefly 
of moss and bits of dead leaf (? bamboo) , with dark root-fibres round the entranee, 
lined with finer pale fibres and plant-down (Tomohon, N. Celebes, 8. April, 1894: 
Sarasin Coll). 
Distribution. Celebes — Minahassa (Wallace a 1, b I, 9, Meyer 7, etc.); Gorontalo Distr. 
