Birds of Celebes: Kectariniidae. 
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Celebesian genera as yet considered, the male of Cyrtostomm has departed least 
from the female type ; the males of Hermotimiu and Aethopyya are vastly different 
from their females and must be regarded as highly specialized forms. The males 
of Nectaropkila afford transitions from HermotitJiia to Cyrtostomus, while extreme 
forms of Cyrtostomus also independently make a near approach to Hermotimia 
(cf. C. teijsmanni). 
* 186. HERMOTIMIA SANGIRENSIS (A.B.M.). 
Sangi Black Sun-bird. 
а. Chalcostetha sangirensis (1) Meyer, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien 1874, LXX, 124. 
б. Nectarinia duyvenbodei part. (1) Meyer (nec. Scbl.) 1. c. al (descr. Q = cf juv.). 
Hermotimia sangirensis (I) Salvad., Atti Ac. Sc. Tor. 1874, X, 233, pi. I, f. 2; (2) id., 
op. cit. 1877, XTI , 311, 313; (3) Meyer, Isis, Dresden 1884, 6, 37. 
c. Hermotimia sanghirensis (1) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1876, IX, 56; (2) W. Bias., 
Ornis 1888, 584. 
d. Cinnyris sangirensis (I) Shelley, Monogr. Xect. 97, pi. 32, f. 2, and pi. 33 (1877); (II) 
Gould, B. New Guinea III, pi. 32 (1878). 
e. Cinnyris sanghirensis (1) Gadow, Oat. B. IX, 1884, 74, (2) Tristr., Nat. Coll. B. 1889, 215. 
“Taramisi maitung”, Great Sangi, Nat. Coll. 
“Taramisi pahopa”, cf inun. Great Sangi, iid. 
“Taramisi lana”, Siao, iid. 
Figures and descriptions. Shelley d I, Gould d II, Salvador! I, c 1\ Meyer a 1\ 
Gadow e 1. 
Adult male. Like the adult male of II porphyrolmma, hut with the chin, throat and jugulmn 
coppery-bronze with a submalar stripe of steel-blue, not violet with a similar steel- 
blue stripe; the mantle and under surface purplish black, not jet-black washed on 
the uiider-part ndtli bhush (type, Siao: Meyer — Nr. 13684). 
Remark. This specimen and another adult male from Siao have one or two yeUow feathers 
on the sides of the breast above the axillaries, calling to mind the pectoral tufts of 
Cyrtostomus xembia (Less.) of the Moluccas, teijsmanni (Biitt.) of South Celebes, 
Arachnecldhra lotenia (Linn.) and A. asiatica (Lath.) of the Indian Region, and 
Chalcostetiia imkjnis (Jard.) of the Great Sunda Islands to Tenasserim. In two 
other adult males from Siao and others from Great Sangi as also in 25 adult males 
discussed by Prof. W. Blasius (c 2) no trace of yellow pectoral tufts is to be seen. 
The occasional presence of pectoral yellow in Siao buds seems to show it to be an 
ancestral character in process of undergoing extinction. 
Female. Above pale olive-gi-een, mantle and forehead greyer; quills dusky edged with 
yellowish olive-green; upper tail-coverts blackish; tail black tipped with white, 
scarcely perceptible on the two central feathers, most broadly on the outermost; 
under surface greenish yellow; brightest on the throat, more washed with olive on 
the breast; flanks pale olive-grey; under wing-coverts and inner edges of quills 
below where they rest upon the body white; axillaries yellowish. (Tabukan, 
[$] Meyer — C 8514.) 
Young. Like the female, but browner and greyer above; under-parts paler; bill shorter and 
straighter. (Siao — Nr. 8516.) 
Immature male. Like the adult female, submalar stripe steel-blue with an inner row of coppery 
