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). [89]
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)