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EUTHYRHYNCHUS FULVIGULA, Schi.
Buff-throated Honey-eater.
E u tty rh yn c lm fulmjula, Schl. Nederl. T ijdschr. Dierk. « . p. 40 (1 8 7 1 ).-S u lv a d . Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov, xii.
p. 343 (1875).—Rosenb. Malay. Arch. pp. 553, 586 (1879).—Salvad. op. eit. xvi. p. 78 (1880).— Id . Urn.
Papuasia e delie Moluccbe, ii. p. 342 (1881).
Timeliopsis acutirostris, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov, vii. p. 964 (1875).
T h is i s t h e m o s t d i s t in c t o f a ll th e s p e c ie s o f t h e g e n u s Euthyrhynchus, a n d is d i s t in g u i s h e d n o t o n ly by
t h e o liv e -g r e e n c o l o | | i o f t h e u p p e r s u r f a c e , b u t, a lso b y t h e am o u n t o f 'd l iv e - g r e e n o n t h e lo w e r p a r t s , w h ic h
c a u s e s th e taw n y b u f f c o lo u r o f t h e t h r o a t to a p p e a r in s t r o n g c o n t r a s t .
It was first described by Professor Schlegel from a specimen in the Leyden Museum, and has since been
discovered 'in the Arfak Mountains by Mr. Bruijn’s hunters, as well as by Dr. Beccari. Count Salvador!
remarks on the affinity o f this genus to the Australian Plectorhyncha, a fact also observed by Mr. Ramsay,
who named one of the species Plectorhyncha fu lm en tru .
Adult. General colonr above dull olive-green, a little lighter on the lower back and rump; lesser and
median wing-coverts. greater coverts, bastard-wing, and primary-coverts as well as the quills dusky'brown,
edged with olive-green like the back, a little more yellow-on the primaries ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged
with olive-green; head like the back, hut a little more dingy and inclining to dull ashy oliv e; lores ashy
fulvous; eyelid und ear-coverts dull ashy, as well as the feathers; below the eye ; throat light tawny ; breast
pale pinkish brown, slightly washed with olive-yellow; sides of body and under tail-coverts pale olive-greenish
as well as the thighs; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale lawn-buff; quills dusky below, whitish along
the inner web. ■ Total length 5 inches, culmen 0.65, wing 2*65, tail 2 ’05, tarsus 0 -8.
The above description is that o f a specimen which the Marquis Doria lent to us ; it is figured m two
positions, and of the natural size. "