EUTHYRHYNCHUS FULVIGULA, sew.

Buff-throated Honey-eater.

Euthyrhynchus fulvigula, Schl. Neder]. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 40 (1871).—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xii.
p. 343 (1875).—Rosenb. Malay. Arch. pp. 553, 586 (1879).—Salvad. op. cit. xvi. p. 78 (1880).—Id. Orn.
Papuasia e delle Molucche, ii. p. 342 (1881).

Timeliopsis acutirostris, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 964 (1875).

 

Tris is the most distinct of all the species of the genus Euthyrhynchus, and is distinguished not only by
the olive-green colour of the upper surface, but also by the amount of olive-green on the lower parts, which
causes the tawny buff colour of the throat to appear in strong contrast.

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. Beceari. Count Salvadori
remarks on the affinity of this genus to the Australian Plectorhyncha, a fact also observed by Mr. Ramsay,
who named one of the species Plectorhyncha fulviventris.

Adult. General colour 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, but a little more dingy and inclining to dull ashy olive ; lores ashy
fulvous; eyelid and 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 fawn-buff; quills dusky below, whitish along
the inner web. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0.65, wing 2°65, tail 2°00, tarsus 0°8.

The above description is that of a specimen which the Marquis Doria lent to us; it is figured in two

positions, and of the natural size.

[R. B. S.J