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Birds of Celebes: Nectariniidae. 
roots and shreds of cotton-tree (Oompliocarpus) hark, firmly interwoven with the webs 
and cocoons of spiders, and a few pieces of white sea-weed ornamenting the outside, 
lined with white feathers and silky native cotton; size about 5 X S'/j inches (Ramsay, 
Ibis 1865, 85). At Cape York: composed of MeMeuca-ha.Tk, a few leaves, various 
fibrous substances, rejectamenta of caterpillars, etc., and lined with the silky cotton 
of the Bombax australis (Macgill. in Gould 1. c.). One of the nests obtained by 
Meyer in Celebes was taken in April. 
Breeding season. Batjan — a nesting female was killed by Dr. Platen, 13. June, 1882 
(Mus. Nehrk.). North Queensland and the islands of Torres Straits — 
November, December (Macgill., Ramsay, 11. cc.). 
Distribution. Celebes to New Guinea, the Admiralty Is., New Britain group, the Solomons 
and North Queensland. 
This Sun-bird is most nearly allied to C. jugularis (L.) of the Philippines, 
the adult male of which is distinguishable by its wanting the yellow stripes 
above and below the eye, by the metallic purple-black feathers of the throat 
encroaching on to the cheeks up to the lores, and by its browner upper sur- 
face. They belong to a group of which the males have the chin, throat, jugulum, 
and sometimes the forehead, metallic purple-blue-black, the remaining under 
parts yellow, sometimes with a band of another colour below the jugulum, the 
upper parts olivaceous, as follows: 
1. C. flammiaxillaris (Blyth): Pegu, Tenasserim, Siam, Cochin China, Malay 
Peninsula. 
2. C. andamanicus (Hume): Andamans. 
3. C.pectoralis (Horsf.): Nicobars; Malacca; Sumatra; Borneo; Java; Lom- 
bok; Sumbawa (Guillem.); Flores; Samao (ten Kate). 
4. C. aurora Tweedd. : Palawan. 
5. C. rhizophorae (Swinh.): Hainan. 
6. C. jugularis (L.): Philippines; Sooloo (Guillem., Everett). 
7. C.frenatus (S. Muller): Celebes to the Solomons and Queensland. 
In musical terms the note of C.frenatus is =z|!=zpEj5ij3z:jz: . 
182. CYRTOSTOMUS TEIJSMANNI (Biitt.). 
Black-bellied Sun-bird. 
Plate XXVI. 
a. Cinayris teysmanni (1) Biittik., Notes Leyden Mus. 1893, XV, 179; (2) Hart., Nov. 
Zool. 1896, 167, 182. 
h. ?Cyrtostomus sp. (1) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 16. 
Male. “Entire crown, sides of bead, bind neck, mantle, back and rump, wing- 
coverts and outer edge of qiiills uniform earthy brown with a slight tinge of olive; 
upper tail-coverts purplish brown; tail-feathers purplish black, the outer webs 
narrowly edged with metallic green; chin and throat metallic purphsh blue, flanked 
on both sides with a broad metalhc green stripe, forming a moustachial streak which 
is produced down to the sides of the chest; the latter is separated from the breast 
