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(J. f. O. 1883, 132 — a collection obtained by Schneider from Duivenbode 
composed of specimens from Celebes, Ternate and Halmahera); and herewith 
their authority ceases” (a 4). 
A series of 1 1 were included among a number of birds from Balante, East 
Celebes, collected by native hunters, together with others from Peling and 
Banggai, for the Dresden and Tring Museums. 
A specimen in the Dresden Museum wTongly referred to by us in J. f. O. 
1894, 245 as Hermotimia fwphyrolaema^ is also not the same as H. auriceps, 
differing in having the mantle, as well as the lower back, etc. glossy steel-blue. 
It is labelled by van Musschenbro ek: “Manado, VI. 74 cf”. This is a new 
species, which we abstain from naming till another specimen reaches us. 
* 184. HERMOTIMIA PORPHYROLAEMA (Wall.). 
Celebesian Black Sun-bird. 
The typical form belongs to South Celebes. A subspecies from East Celebes 
has been named, but the northern birds, as regards the adult male at least, 
are sufficiently peculiar to justify their being treated as a species. The two 
known forms of H. porphyrolaema are : 
1. The typical Hermotimia porphyrolaema. 
a. Neetarinia aspasia pt. (1) S. Miill., Yerli. Natuurk. Ooimn. 1846, 58, 64, 65 (Macassar). 
b. Neetarinia porphyrolaema (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1865, 479. 
c. Promerops porphyrolaema (1) Gray, HL. 1869, I, 110, Nr. 1360. 
d. Chalcostetha porphyrolaema (1) Wald., Ibis 1870, 46; (2) id., Tr. Z. S. 1872, Vm, 71; 
(3) Meyer, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien 1874, LXX, 123; (4) id., Ibis 1879, 131, 146. 
e. Hermotimia porphyrolaema (1) Salvad., Atti Ac. Sc. Tor. 1874, X, 232; (Tlj id., Ann. 
Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, YII, 660, pL XVm, f. 3; ("5; id., Atti Ac. Sc. Tor. Xn^ 
1877, 310; (4) id., Orn. Pap. n, 1881, 261; (5j id.. Ibis 1884, 325; (6) W. Bias.’ 
Ztscbr. ges. Orn. 1885, 287; (7) id., J. f. 0. 1885, 403; (8) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. 
Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 11. 
/’. Cinnyris porphyrolaemus (I) Shelley, Monogr. Nect. 95, 2 d. 32, f. 1 (1877); (2) Biittik., 
Zool. Erg. Weber’s Reise inOst-Ind. 1893, HE, 279; (3) Hart., Nov. Zook 1896, 152; 
(4) id., ib. 1897, 157, 161. 
9- Nectarophila gray! pt. (1) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 132, 146 (Togian). 
h. Cinnyris aspasiae pt. (1) Gadow, Cat. B. IX, 1884, 68, 70, 72, 73. 
“Tjni tjni itam” (Malay: itam = black), South Celebes, Platen e 6. 
Figures and descriptions. Shelley f I', Salvador! e //, el; Wallace b 1\ Gadow h 1\ 
W. Blasius e 6. 
Adult male. Velvety black; the least wing-coverts, metacarpal edge, lower half of 
back, U 2323 er tail-coverts and a broad edging to the tail-feathers metallic 
steel-blue-black; head above metalhc greenish gold; chin and throat metallic violet, 
bordered at the sides by a submalar stripe of .steel-blue [(^ ad. Tjamba Distr., 
S. Celebes, 22. VI. 78: Platen — C 13202). Iris browir; bill and feet black (Platen). 
Young male. Head above and nape grey, with dark centres to the feathers; quills brown; 
mantle, back and external edges of quills olive-yellow [yellow-ohve] ; chin and 
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