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15. Females of C- .1 • mind an one is average: wing, 52; tail 38; 
culmen, 17; tarsus, 14. 
Material.- 26 skins, from Mindanao and the off-lying islands of 
Talicud and Buluan, the latter showing a tendency to intergrade with 
C. j. v/oodi. One slcin from Cebu Island. 
Remarks.- Skins from northern Mindanao, adjoining the range ox 
C. ,jugular is d.1 agat onsi 3 (Bucas, Duiagat, Leyte, Basiao, nohol and 
I'anay islands), show no tendency to intergrade with dinagatensis, but, 
on the contrary, have the underparts paler yellow than ary others 
from ■hncl ’.nao. The range of dinagatensis separates the ranges of 
.iugulnris me 1 mindsnensis . 
Oyrtostoraun woedi , nev 3 pccics. 
Food Yellow-breasted Sunbird. 
Type.- He. 200C02, U.S.National Museum. Adult male from one 
of the Three Islands, south of Sibutu Island, Philippine Islands, 
January 5, 15)06. Shot by Leonard Food, Jr., for whom the s ccies is 
named. 
Charaoter s.- Smaller than Cyrtostomus aurora , C^ feugularis , or 
0 . dinagatensis , old males differing from a.il three in the met -.1 - ic 
reflections on the middle of the dark metallic plastron, which arc 
bluish and violet instead of green-blue; underparts shading }l £ O k. 
gradually from rich orange, adjoining the dark metallic plastron, to 
clear yellov/ on the crissum and under tail-coverts; back a more golden 
plive-green than in the other Philippine forms; forehead lores and 
superciliary stripe solid metallic violet-purple. 
Young male (Ho. 200600 IT.S.National Museum, from Darami Island 
in the Sulu Sea, January 4, 1906).- Middle of chin, fore neck, and 
