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Dr. F. Hopkinson—Sunhirds



(from Sclater’s Systema) given above in 1926, for had they done

so I must have heard of it, being in Gambia at the time and known

all round to be interested in birds and bird-catching. Also I am

practically certain that the birds Gamage had all came from much

further south in West Africa.


Plain Sunbird {A. simplex (S. Muller, 1843)). Z. 6285. Hab. : Borneo

and Sumatra. Plate : Shelley, Mon., pi. 100. “ One presented

by Mr. St. Alban Smith, June, 1930 ; new to the collection ”

{Report, 1930).


Brown-throated Sunbird [A. malacensis (Scop)). Z. 628a. Hab. :

Malaya to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, etc. Plates : Shelley, Mon.,

pi. 101, fig. 2 ; Rob. and Kloss, Birds of Malay Peninsula, pi., p. 302 ;

B. and Chasen, B. Singapore, pi., p. 224. One new to the Zoo

received 26th January, 1930 {Report, 1930). The writer has had

one for the last month, given him by Mr. Chaplin, which has

proved to him how easy a Sunbird is to cater for nowadays, and

what a happy cage-bird one makes ; incidentally too, this new

possession may be one of the causes of this article.


Rufous-throated Sunbird {A. rhodolcema (Shelley)). Hab.: Malaya,

Sumatra, and Borneo. Plate : Shelley, Mon., pi. 101. First

importation about 1932, when Mr. Chaplin tells me he obtained

two examples.


Great Spider-hunter {Arachnothera magna (Hodgs.). Z. 627. Hab. :

Himalayas to Tenasserim, etc. Plate : Shelley, Mon., pi. 112,

fig. 1. First importation, 1913. In B.N., 1913, p. 32, Captain

Perreau describes one he brought over in that year, and later

Mr. Ezra had two which he presented to the Zoo. In November,

1929, Goodfellow brought two or three for Mr. Spedan Lewis,

but if they actually came from Borneo as most of the other birds

with them did, they must have belonged to another species, and

I should think that this sentence really belongs to the next entry.


Robust Spider-hunter {Arachnorhaphis robusta (Mull, and Schl.)).

Hab. : Sumatra and Borneo. Plate : Shelley, Mon., pi. 118.

“One, new to collection, presented by Mr. Spedan Lewis, November,

1929 ” {Report, 1929).



