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Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor).

Male.--Differs from the male of E. pulcherrima in having the outer webs of secondaries metallic green instead of olive-green and entire outer webs of primaries blackish brown with traces of metallic green. Bill, legs, and nails black. Length, 95; wing, 50; tail, 27; culmen from base, 20.5; bill from nostril, 16; tarsus, 14.

Female.--Above olive-green, darker and browner on the crown; rump lemon-yellow; under parts pale yellowish; grayer on chin and throat; wing-feathers blackish brown, edged with olive-green; rectrices blackish brown, tipped with dirty white, and narrowly edged with metallic green. Wing, 46; tail, 27; culmen from base, 19; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 15.

663. EUDREPANIS DECOROSA McGregor.

BOHOL SUNBIRD.

Eudrepanis decorosa McGregor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 330.

Bohol (McGregor).

Male.--Similar to the male of E. jefferyi, but metallic color on secondaries and wing-coverts steel-blue instead of green; rump-patch and under parts pale sulphur-yellow; red on chest reduced to a few small spots. Bill, legs, and nails black. Length, 89; wing, 45; tail, 24; culmen from base, 19; bill from nostril, 15; tarsus, 14.

Female.--Similar to the female of E. jefferyi, but the rump-patch sulphur-yellow. Wing, 44; tail, 22; culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 14.5; tarsus, 13.

Genus CINNYRIS Cuvier, 1817.

Bill and head about equal in length; tail moderately long, nearly square, and extending beyond the folded wings; nasal opercles covered with short feathers. Males with chin, throat, and fore breast usually metallic colored, or at least of a different color from the lower breast and abdomen; females with no metallic colors and the under parts light yellow or green.

Species.

a1. Chin, throat, and fore breast black or metallic colored, very distinct from the color of lower breast and abdomen (males).

b1. Breast bright red.

c1. Mantle maroon-red ... sperata (p. 652) c2. Mantle velvety black ... henkei (p. 653)

b2. Breast and abdomen yellow, or orange and yellow.

c1. Metallic color on under surface confined to chin and middle of fore throat.

d1. Forehead metallic steel-green; crown and nape yellowish olive-green. ... flagrans (p. 654) d2. Forehead dark metallic purple; crown and nape dull red. ... guimarasensis (p. 655)

c2. Metallic color of under surface covering entire chin, throat, and fore breast.

d1. Tail not tipped with white; forehead and crown metallic green; mantle maroon-red; entire chin and throat metallic purple ... juliæ (p. 654) d2. Tail with a broad white tip; forehead and all the upper parts dull green; chin, throat, and fore breast metallic bluish black.

e1. Posterior under parts yellow with no orange next the black fore breast ... jugularis (p. 656) e2. Posterior under parts yellow with a large bright orange patch next the black fore breast ... aurora (p. 658)

a2. Chin, throat, and breast yellow or greenish, never metallic, and not very different in color from the abdomen (females).

b1. Light tip of tail gray, about 6 mm. in length on outermost pair of rectrices; general color of under parts apple-green.

c1. Primaries and secondaries edged with dull orange-rufous. ... sperata (p. 652) henkei (p. 653) c2. Primaries, secondaries, and greater coverts edged with light claret-brown, this color extending faintly across the back ... juliæ (p. 654)

b2. Light tip of tail white, about 10 mm. in length on outermost pair of rectrices; general color of under parts gamboge-yellow. ... jugularis (p. 656) aurora (p. 658)

664. CINNYRIS SPERATA (Linnæus).

RED-BREASTED SUNBIRD.

Certhia sperata Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 186. Cinnyris speratus Shelley, Monogr. Nectarin. pt. 4 (1877), 131, pl. 43. Cinnyris sperata Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1884), 9, 63; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 230; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 99.