[). BUBIXGA. 257 



p. 352 ; Gray, Cat. B. New Guinea, p. 33 ; Fimch, Neii Gtd/iea, 

 p. 171 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 287. 

 Dicronostreptus mezorhynchus (^lapsu), Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 430, uote. 



Adalt. Above blue- black, with a very slight steel gloss on the 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; head and sides of neck metallic 

 steel-purple, the feathers on the latter elongated and somewhat 

 lanceolate ; frontal plumes, lores, and sides of face dull purplish 

 black ; under surface of body dusky purplish black, with faintly 

 indicated tips of glossy green on some of the feathers of the throat 

 and chest ; under wing-coverts purplish black like the breast ; wings 

 above dull glossy steel-gix-en ; quills pui-plish black, the secondaries 

 externally duU steel-green, not so metallic as the coverts ; tail- 

 feathers purplish black, glossed Mith metallic steel-green on the 

 outer edge of both webs, more distinctly and broadly on the centre 

 ones, the outermost feather elongated and twisted in an inward curl 

 at the tip ; bill and feet black. Total length 20-5 inches, culmen 1-5, 

 wing 7, tail 6, outer feather 14, tarsus 1*05. 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Ad. St. Carteret Harbour. Capt. Lambrick, E.N. [P.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Carteret Harbour. Capt. Lambrick, R.N. [P.J. 



9. BHRINGA. 



Type. 



Bhringa, Hodgson, Ind. Rev. i. p. 325 (1837) B. remifer. 



Melisseus, Hodgson, in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844). . . . B. remifer. 



Range. Himala3'as, Burmese provinces ; Tenasserim ; Java. 



1. Bhringa remifer, 



Edolius remifer, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. 178 ; Blyih, J. A. S. B. xi. 



pp. 169,800. 

 Bhringa tectirostris, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. i. p. 325 ; Hume, Str. F. 1874, 



p. 474, 1875, p. 101 ; id. Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 193. 

 Bhringa remifer, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. -'88 ; Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xv. 



p. 294 J id. Cat. B.'Mus. A. S. B. p. 200; Bp. Consp. i. p. 350: 



Horsf. 8f Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 159 ; Jerd. B. hid. \. 



p. 4.34 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 287 ; Godiv.-Amf. J. A. S. B. xxxix. 



p._ 268 ; Blyih c^- Wald. B. Burnt, p. 128. 

 Melisseus remifer, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 ; Cah. 3Ius. 



Hein. Th. i. ■p. 111. 



Adult. Black ; upper surface of body with a rich steel-green me- 

 tallic gloss ; forehead, lores, and sides of face purplish black ; below, 

 the breast is metallic greenish like the back, the throat also spangled 

 with steel-green tips to the feathers ; abdomen blackish grey, with 

 a slight steel gloss, the under tail-coverts distinctly washed with 

 steel-green ; under wing-coverts purplish black, with a few steel 

 reflections near the edge of the wing, some few of the greater series 

 tipped with white ; wings above glossy greenish like the back, but a 

 little duller ; quills blue-black on the inner web, the secondaries 



