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Birds of Celebes: 'Kectariniidae. 
ciable differences, and brings conviction that no variation has taken place since 
the land connecting Borneo and Sumatra was submerged by the China Sea. 
The genus Aethopyga is not found east of the Molucca Strait. The long 
loose, downy feathers on the side of the rump, capable of being drawn over it 
so as to conceal the yellow, seem to afford the best mark of generic distinction 
for it. Sangi has furnished no member of this group. 
GENUS EUDREPANIS Sharpe. 
The male has the rump yellow, as in Aethopyga^ but the tail is simply 
rounded and relatively shorter, rather more than half the length of the wing; 
under parts yellow, with or without other light tints. Eange: Philippine and 
Sangi Islands. 
* 180. EUDREPANIS DUIVENBODEI (Schl.). 
Sangi Green-capped Sun-bird. 
a. Nectarinia duyvenbodei ') (1) Schl., Ned. Tschr. Dierk. IV, 1873, 14; (2) Meyer, Sitzb. 
Ak. "Wien 1874, LXX, 125 (excl. descr. fern.). 
b. Aethopyga? duyvenbodei (1) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1876, IX, 57. 
c. Aethopyga duyvenbodei (1) Salvad., Atti Ac. Sc. Torino 1877, XII, 316; (2) Gadow, 
Oat. B. IX, 1884, 30; (3) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 588; (4) Tristr., Cat. Coll. B. 
1889, 213; (5) Everett, J. Str. Br. B. A. S. 1889, 135. 
Eudrepanis duyvenbodei (I) Shelley, Monogr. Nect. 81, pi. 27 (1877); (2) Meyer, Isis, 
Dresden 1884, 6, 37. 
Figures and descriptions. Shelley /; Schlegel a 1\ Salvador! h 7; Gadow c 2\ 
Blasius c 3. 
Adultmale. Forehead and crown metallic coppery green; sides of occiput, ear-coverts 
and neck dull crimson, mantle, back and scapulars yellow olive -gi’een; wings 
dusky blackish, the smaller coverts metallic greenish blue, the larger series broadly 
fringed with this colour, the quills, except the outermost, edged with ohve-green; 
rump gamboge-yellow; upper tail-coverts metallic violet-blue, tail-feathers dusky 
black, the three outer pairs tipped with brownish white about 10 mm broad in the 
outermost; lores and orbit yellow, the lores with' dark tips; malar region, chin, 
throat and entire under-parts gamboge-yellow washed with orange on sides of 
breast; under wing-coverts wlhte, yellower near edge of wing, axillaries light 
yellow (Tabukan, Great Sangi, [rj’j: Meyer — C 5976). 
Ii'is brown; bill and feet black. (Platen 3). 
Female. With no metallic parts in the plumage; above yellow olive-green, like the back of 
the male, head above scaly -looking, owing to subterminal black cross-marks; rump 
greenish yellow; wing- and tail-coverts like the hack; entire under-parts yellow, 
less bright than in the male, the throat and chest slightly washed with olive (Tabu- 
kan, [Q], Meyer — 0 2471). Base of under bill brownish yellow. 
Young male in changing plumage. Like the female, but the head and neck browner, the 
crown, shoulders and upper tail-coverts varied with the metallic feathers of the adult 
1) The correct way of spelling’ van Buivenbode’s name is with an i. 
