Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author.

  • Edward Blyth
Date:
1875
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Credit: Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *484. 0. TENUTROSTRIS. 0. tenuirostris, nobis, J. A. S. B. xv. 48. Arakan, Pegu, Martaban. Apparently not common, and distinguished from the preceding species by having a much more slender bill. [Tonghoo (Z.); Thayet Myo, Karen nee ( W. It.); Kollidoo (Z>.).] Fam. Neetarinidse. Sunbirds. *485. Arachnothera magna (J. 223). Arakan, Tenasserim. *486. A. atjrata. A. aurata, nobis, J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 416. Tonghoo. [Karen hills, at 2500 feet (W. It.). Jerdon (B. Ind. i. p. 361) refers to an Arachnothera phayrei, Blyth, from Pegu. I cannot find that Blyth ever published any such title. Jerdon states that A. phayrei is very close to A. magna. A. aurata is noted in my private memoranda (written some years ago) on Jerdon’s work, as being intended: a correction almost certainly entered, as in many other instances, after personal reference to Blyth or Jerdon, although the circumstance has escaped my memory. There is a Nectarinia phayrei, Blyth, a title Jerdon may have had in his mind. As Blyth does not include A. phayrei in this list, it is most probable that he never published such a title, and that it occurs (l. c.) through a slip of the pen.] *487. A. pusilla (J. 224). Tippera, Arakan, Tenasserim, Pinang, Malacca, Sumatra. [Tonghoo (W. It.). This species must take the specific title of longi- rostra, Lath., Ind. Orn. i. p. 299. One Tonghoo example, shot in April, has the orange pectoral tufts fully developed; while in another ( £), obtained on the 20th of that month, they are absent. Javan individuals can hardly be separated.] [488. A. MODESTA. Antlireptes modcsta, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 105. Meeta Myo (-0.). Thus identified by Mr. Ilume.]