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purple tint on the throat which changes from pansy-purple to maroon-purple 
with a coppery lustre, according to the light; the metallic crown of this bird 
is of a trifle deeper greenish gold, and the size larger. H. sangirensis (Meyer) 
has departed a little more widely; it has the throat coppery-bronze and the 
submalar stripe purple-steel-blue. The Celebes Province thus possesses the only 
species of Hermotimia with a submalar stripe of a different colour from the 
throat, viz : 
II. porphyrolaema-. South, West and East Celebes; 
II. grayi: North Celebes ; 
H. sangirensis: Sangi; 
H. talautensis: Talaut. 
* 185. HERMOTIMIA GRAYI (Wall.). 
North Celebes Black Sun-bird. 
a. Nectarinia grayi (1) AV’all., P. Z. S. 1865, 479; (2) Eriigg., Abli. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 73. 
h. Promerops grayi (1) Gray, HL. I, 1869, 110, Nr. 1359. 
c. Nectarophila grayi (I) AVald., Ibis 1870, 20, 42, jd. 1, f. 2; (2) id., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VUE, 
71; (3) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Oiv. Geu. 1875, VH, 660; (4) Lenz, J. f. 0. 1877, 
375; (5) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 132 (nec Togian); (6) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 138; 
(7) id., Ztsclir. ges. Orn. 1886, 197. 
Hermotimia grayi (1) Salvad., Atti Ac. Sc. lor. 1877, XG, 310, 313; (II) Meyer, Vogelskel. 
I, 1894, t. OOVH; (3) M. & Wg-, Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 11. 
d. Ginnyris grayi (I) Sbelley, Monogr. Nect. 91, pi. 31 (1877), (2) Gadow, Oat. B. IX, 
1884, 66; (3) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 554; (4) Tristr., Oat. Ooll. B. 1889, 214; 
(5) Hart. Kat. A^og. Slg. Scnckenb. Mus. 1891, 30. 
“Burong tjui kapala mas” (Golden-headed), Malay, Minahassa, Meyer c 5. 
“Burong tjui itam” (item = black), Malay, Nat. Ooll. 
Figures and descriptions. Shelley d /; AV^alden c I , Meyer //(skeleton); Briiggemann a 2; 
Gadow d 2. 
Adult male. Just like II. ^jerphyrolaeMa ad. of S. Oelebes (^descr. antea), but the neck, 
mantle, scapulars and breast dark blood-red, not black, the bases of the feathers 
blackish, forming a black cross-mark anterior to the broad red fringe of the terminal 
part; some of the middle, as well as tlie lesser, wing-coverts metallic steel-blue, the 
others and the inner greater series touched with red (Lotta, 12. V. 93: Nat. Ooll. 
— 0 12211 ). 
Iris red; feet, claws and bill black: Meyei c 5. 
Adult female. Upper parts ashy brown, with the entire back, scapulars, and least 
and median wing-coverts shaded with olive, lemainder of wings dark brown, 
the greater coverts and quills broadly edged with olive-yellow; upper tail-coverts 
and tail black, the latter with white tips to some of the outer feathers; chin and 
throat white; breast and under tail-coverts pale yellow; quills below brown, 
inner margins and the under wing-coverts white, the latter shaded with sulphur-yellow 
(after Shelley d I). 
Young male. Much like the female; chin and throat washed with greenish yellow; malar 
stripe steel-blue, as in the adult male; some steel-blue feathers in the upper tail- 
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