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Show 266 DR. F. H. H. GUILLEMARD ON BIRDS COLLECTED [J 40. CINNYRIS JULI^; (Tweeddale). Nectarophila julice, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 536, 547. Cinnyris julia, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 135, pi. 44 ; Cat. B. vol. ix. p. 64. Hab. Malanipa (H.M.S. ' Challenger ') ; Mindanao (Everett) ; Sulu (Guillemard). a-g. <$ . Maimbun, Sulu Islands. Iris red-brown ; bill and tarsus black. Length 9*9-10*5 centims., wing 4*8-5*0 centims. This exquisite little Sun-bird seemed nowhere abundant on Sulu Island; but a pair or two were always to be found haunting some low flowering shrubs at the back of the little village of Maimbun. The present individuals agree exactly with the types brought home by the ' Challenger,' at present in the British Museum. It is curious that Dr. Steere did not meet with this species in Mindanao or Basilan, from which latter island it has been recorded, though Mr. Everett obtained it at Zamboanga on the former. The ' Challenger ' party found it "quite numerous" in Malanipa. 41. ANTHOTHREPTES MALACCENSIS (Scopoli). Anthreptes malaccensis, Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. 2nd ser. Zool. vol. i. p. 342; Cat. B. vol. ix. p. 122. Hab. Zebu (Everett) ; Negros (Steere); Mindanao (Everett) ; Basilan and Palawan (Everett); Sulu (Guillemard) ; Celebes (Wallace) ; Borneo (Wallace). a-j. o" • Sulu Island. k-o. 2 - Sulu Island. Male. Iris brownish red ; bill black ; tarsus olive-brown. Length about 13*7 centims., wing 6*9-7*1 centims. Female. Iris brown ; bill black ; tarsus light olive-brown. Length about 12*0 centims., wing 64-6*6 centims. I have followed Dr. Gadow's arrangement in the ' Catalogue of Birds,' and regarded the Bornean Anthothreptes as not specifically separable from that of the Philippines. The differences, though considerable so far as regard colouring, appear to be anything but constant, and the present series vary much both in size and colouring. Many Bornean skins show a like variation. The Sulu birds on the whole do not appear to differ much from the generality of those from Borneo. This Sun-bird was apparently abundant in all the islands of the Archipelago that we visited, and we also obtained it on the solitary volcanic island, Cagayan Sulu. 42. CORVUS PHILIPPINUS, Bonaparte. Corvus philippinus, Wald. Tr. Z. S. ix. part 2, p. 201 ; Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 548, 698, 763, 831 ; 1878, pp. 113, 287, 343, 381. Corone philippina, Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. 2nd ser. Zool. vol. i. p. 343. |
