BY R. B. WILLIAMS. 
95 
English species. The iris is red, with a ring of naked 
skin round the eyes. Feet and tarsus coral red. 
Dictum nigrimentum, Sharpe. 
(The Black-backed Flower-pecker.) 
Common in the dry season, but not so often seen as the 
other Flower-peckers. 
iETHOPYGA SIPARAJA, Raffl. 
{Baffles' Sunbird.) 
A common bird all the year round, but commonest 
during the wet season, perhaps. Male : tassel on the end 
of the long tongue is black and yellow ; iris dark brown to 
black; the feet and tarsus greenish brown. 
Cyrtostomus pectoralis, Horsf. 
{The Purple-throated Sunbird.) 
The bill is black, with the usual long tasselled tongue ; 
iris dark brown. 
Arachnothera longirostris, Lath. 
{The Little Spider-hunter.) 
These Arachnotheras are all very much alike except for 
slight differences in colour and size, and they usually fly 
at a great pace through the jungle, hence their name 
“ Burong bodoh ” (“stupid bird”), because they seem to 
be so aimlessly in a hurry, and usually give a shrill scrape 
as they pass. 
Anthothreptes malacoensis, Scop. 
{The Malaccan Brown-throated Sunbird.) 
This is a common bird throughout the year. Male; iris 
reddish brown. The colours of the plumage seem to vary 
very much ; of two shot at Santubong, September, 1911, 
one was much more blue than the other, which showed 
chiefly green, while one shot at Bau in October, 1911, had 
the metallic covering very imperfect: the colouring seemed 
to be only just appearing through dull grey feathers, 
though the feathers seemed to be fully grown and well 
fledged. 
December 6th , 1912.—Male had black bill, with long 
tasselled tongue, but bill not so much curved as in other 
Sunbirds ; iris brick-red; the feet and tarsus are dull 
