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Show 1885.] DURING THE VOYAGE OF THE YACHT ' MARCHESA.' 265 38. DICTUM HYPOLEUCUM, Sharpe. Dicceum hypoleucum, Sharpe, 'Nature,' Aug. 1876, p. 298; id. Tr. Linn. Soc. 2nd ser. Zool. vol. i. p. 339 ; Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 72. Hab. Basilan (Steere) ; Sulu (Guillemard) ; Siassi (Guillemard). a, b. o". Sulu Island. c. juv. o*. Sulu Island. d. 2 • Parang, Sulu Island. e. juv. 2 - Siassi Island. f. juv. 2 • Sulu Island. Iris, in the adult, light reddish brown ; bill and tarsus black. Length about 9*5 centims., wing 5*4-56 centims. The adult birds of both sexes are deep black on the upper surface, with a faint tinge of bluish green, most marked on the wing. The middle line of the breast and abdomen is washed with pale buff. In the young birds the black of the upper surface is replaced by a dull olive-brown, and the outer webs of the secondaries are bordered with olive-green. This edging becomes narrower on the primaries, and is absent altogether from the first two or three. D. hypoleucum appears to be abundant in the Sulu Archipelago, and is almost always to be found in the cocoanut groves, hunting at the crown of the palms for insects, in company with Cinnyris jugularis. 39. CINNYRIS JUGULARIS (Linnaeus). Cinnyris jugularis, Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. 2nd ser. Zool. vol. i. p. 341 ; id. Cat. B. vol. ix. p. 86. Arachnecthra jugularis, Wald. Tr. Z. S. vol. ix. pt. 2, p. 200. Hab. Negros, Guimaras, Zebu (Meyer); Luzon, Leyte, Bohol, Dinagat, and Basilan (Everett) ; Camiquin (H. M.S. ' Challenger') ; Panay, Mindanao (Steere) ; Sulu (Guillemard). a-m. 6" • Sulu Island. n, o. 2 • Sulu Island. Iris brown; bill and tarsus black. Length 11*3-11*7 centims. 2 about 11*0 centims. Wing 5*4-5*7 centims.; in female about 5*2 centims. In three or four of the above males there is a patch of metallic blue feathers at the upper and outer angle of the eye, forming a partial eyebrow, and in most skins some faint trace of this is to be seen. In several individuals also there are scattered metallic blue feathers in the frontal region. There is no tendency whatever to this metallic colouring on the head in any of a large series of G. frenata that I obtained from Celebes and the islands eastward to New Guinea. The present species is extremely abundant in Sulu Island. As far as I am aware, it has not been recorded from Palawan, where C. aurora probably replaces it. |