Cinnyris guimarasensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere
Exped. (1890), 22; Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota
Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 55 (female); McGregor and
Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 99.
Guimaras (Steere Exp.); Negros (Keay, Celestino); Panay (Bourns
& Worcester).
"Adult male.--Forehead and crown metallic green with violet
reflections; hind head, neck, and upper part of mantle dark blood-red;
back olive-yellow; chin violet; cheeks, sides of neck, and throat
velvety black; breast rich orange separated from the black of the
throat by a sulphur-yellow band; a central stripe on the throat, partly
concealed, of rich vermilion; flanks and abdomen pale yellow. Length,
89; wing, 48." (Steere.)
"Adult female.--Head and nape light olive-green, becoming browner on
back, wing-coverts, and outer webs of secondaries; upper tail-coverts
like back; tail black, webs of central pair of feathers washed with
same color as back; sides of face dark ashy gray, edges of feathers
darker than centers; chin light yellow; entire throat gray, faintly
washed with yellow; entire breast bright orange-yellow paler on flanks,
abdomen, and under tail-coverts; axillars, under wing-coverts, and
inner webs of quills pure white." (Bourns and Worcester.)
"The length of our specimens was not taken in the flesh. Average
from six males: Wing, 48; tail, 31; culmen, 20; tarsus, 14; middle
toe with claw, 13. Six females, wing, 44; tail, 28; culmen, 18;
tarsus, 13; middle toe with claw, 13. Bill, iris, legs, feet, and
nails black." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)