Birds of Celebes: Neotariniidae. 
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2. Anthreptes malaccensis chlorigaster (Sharpe).^) 
i. Antothreptus malaccensis pt. (1) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VII, 661 (Siao). 
j. Anthothreptes malaccensis (1) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1876, IX, 57 (Gt. Sangi); 
(2) Gadow, Cat. B. IX, 1884, 123, partim (Negros). 
k. Anthothreptus malaccensis pt. (1) Salvad., Atti Ac. Sc. Tor. 1877, XU, 320 (Sangi). 
l . Anthreptes chlorigaster (1) Sharpe, Tr. Z. S. 1877, I, 342 (Negros); (2) W. Bias., Ornis 
1888, 585 (Gt. Sangi). 
m. Anthreptes chlorigastra (I) Shelley, Monogr. Nect. jj. XLV (Negros, Cebu), 321, pi. 103, 
f. 1 (Gt. Sangi) (1877). 
n. Anthothreptes chlorogastra (1) Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1877, 756, 763 (Cebu?). 
o. Anthothreptes chlorigaster (1) Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1878, 287 (Negros); (2) Steere, List 
Coll. B. & M. Pliilipp. Is. 1890, 23 (Negros, Masbate); (3) Bourns & Worces., 
B. Menage Exped. 1894, 38. 
p. Anthotreptes chlorigaster (1) Meyer, Isis, Dresden 1884, 6, 38 (Siao, Gt. Sangi). 
Figure and descriptions. Shelley wt 4, Salvad. y 2, Sharpe ll] Bias. 12. 
Diagnosis. Adult male: Size large (wing 70—77 mm); under surface greener yellow than in 
the typical form, less oHvaceous than in cdebensis] head and mantle metalhc bottle- 
green, without, or with hardly any, violet inteimixed. 
L'is blood-red (Platen I 2). 
Adult female? Larger than the female of cdebensis and of the typieal, subspecies; under- 
parts from breast downwards strongly W'ashed with oHve and ohve-yellow; chin and 
throat whitish oHve-grey (Siao, Nr. 8567, C 382; Gt. Sangi, C 12709). 
L'is red-brown (Platen 12). 
Young. Like the adult female, but the undei .surface greener yellow, the dun and throat 
washed with the same colour, and the head above not tinged with grey (Siao, C 8568). 
Observation. From analogy with the Celebes lace we hold the specimens with pale grey 
tlrroats and greyish olive heads for females, and tlie one described without grey on 
these parts for a bu'd of the year. The feather-structure of this specimen, which is 
mentioned by Shelley, also appears immature. Prof. W. Blasius mentions two 
females as distinguishing themselves bj a yellower colom on the chin and throat, 
but for the above reason we believe these to be only young females. 
Nest? See under IIe)'moUniia sangirensis. 
Distribution. Philippine Islands (Steere 11, Everett o 1, etc.); Great Sangi (Meyer ml, 
Bruijn kl, Platen 12, Nat. Coll.); Siao (Meyer m 7, p 2). 
Remark, Sangi specimens were compared by Oapt. 6 ley \vith one of the two type 
specimens from Negros and considered by him to be perfectly identical. 
Arachnothera longirostris Miill. Schl. This species was recorded by Miiller 
and Schlegel from Celebes, but confirmation of its occurrence there is wanting; 
1) The following references seem to belong to the intermediate A. malaccensis chlorigaster; Antho- 
threptes chlorogaster Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1878. 951 (Mindanao); Anth^ptes chlorigastra Shelley, Monogr. 
p. XLV pt. (Mindanao); Anthreptes chlorigaster W. Bias., J. f. O- 1890, 139 (Sooloo); (?) A. mal. chlorogaster 
Hart., Xov. Zool. 1896, 567 (SumbaWid- L ’’egretted that ormthologists have seen fit to alter 
the spellings of the generic and specific names of this species in the way they have done; science does not 
profit by such shufflings, nor classical learning, it may be, to any great extent either. For the genua we 
have: Anthreptes, Antothreptus, Anthothreptes, Anthothrevtus and Anihotrevtes; for the species chlorigaster, 
^in’origetstra,, chlorogastra and chlorogaster. 
