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male,- only a few yellow feathers on the rump; under parts paler yellow mixed with 
orange (Tahukan, [(J' imm.], Meyer — Nr. 8475). 
Young. Above like the female, but browner and duller; rump and upper tail-coverts 
yellowish olive; below pale yellow, with some obscure dusky tips on chin, throat and 
sides of breast, almost forming faint bars on the throat (Tabukan, juv. Nr. 8476). 
Measurements. (16 males) wing 54.5 — 58.5 mm; tail 32 — 38; culmen from feathers of fore- 
head 17 — 18; tarsus 17 — 18; (2 females) wing 51.5—52; tail 29; culmen 16 — 16.2; 
tarsus 16 (W. Elasius 3). 
A fully adult female in the Dresden Museum (that described above) measures: 
wing 56.5; tail 34; tarsus 17; bill fr. feath. foreb. 18. It appears, therefore, that 
Count Salvadori and Prof. Elasius are in error in describing the female as smaller 
than the male, and from the descriptions of these ornithologists, also, wo infer that 
the specimens before them were immature. Three immature specimens before us are 
distinguishable from the old female by their smaller bills, besides by the browner tint 
of their heads, necks, and mantles, and in two cases by the paler yellow of their 
under-parts. 
Distribution. Great Sangi (v. Duivenbode al, Hoedt al, Meyer a 2, Eruijn bl 
Platen c 3). 
This species appears to be intermediate between Aethopyga shelleyi 
of Palawan and Balabac and Eudrepanis pidcherrima Sharpe of Basilan near 
Mindanao and Samar and E. jefferyi Grant of North Luzon (Ibis 1895, 111, 
pi. V). The adult male of the first-named differs by its long, gxaduated tail, 
red mantle (as well as sides of head and neck), long moustachial stripe of red 
and metallic blue, and its non-metallic wing-coverts; the latter differs by its steel- 
blue ear-coverts and sinciput (not entire crown of head), the olive-green of the 
rest of the head and neck, the red jugulum, and shoil tail. Capt. Shelley 
places the Sangi bird in Sharpe’s genus Eudrepanis, of w'hich E. pulcherrima is 
the type. Count Salvadori shows that the broad yellow band across the rump 
leaves no doubt as to the affinity of the Sangi species with Aethopyga\ but adds 
that on the other hand its tail being only a little graduated, and the middle 
rectrices not much lengthened, the metallic coppery of the wings, and the 
throat yellow like the under-parts remove it from the typical species of Aetho- 
pyga and make it a form intermediate between the genus Aethopyga and the 
genera Anthothreptes and Chalcoparia. 
GENUS CYRTOSTOMUS Cah. 
In this group the metallic colours of the male are restricted to the chin, 
throat, and sometimes the pileum; the upper surface is olive, — browner, greener, 
or yellower according to the species, the under parts chiefly yellow, when not 
black. The culmen is about half as long again as the cranium, and more de- 
curved than in Hermotimia and Eudrepanis, the nasal operculum bare, the tail 
moderate, slightly rounded. 
Cyrtostomus is found from North Australia as far as Burmah and Hainan. 
^leyer & Wi gl es wo r th, Birds of Cele'bes (Nov. 8th 1897). 
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