268 BICRURIDJ?. 



Hab. Borneo and Sumatra. 



rt. r c? ] ad. sk. Borneo. Rajah Brooke [?.]._ 



6. [cJ] ad. sk. Banjermassing. J. Motley, Esq. [C.]. 



c. c? ad. sk, Jauibusan, Sept. 11, Alfred Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



1874. 



d. c? ad. sk. Sibu. Alfred Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



e. [c7]ad. sk. Labuan. Hiifrh Low, E-^q. [0.]. 

 f,g. S 2 ad. sk. Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 A. ' [ 5 ] ad. St. Sumatra. Purchased. 



5. Irena puella. 



Fairy Roller, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. p. 87. 



Coracias puella, Lath. Lid. Oni. i. p. 171 ; Baud. Traite, ii. p. 264. 



Irena puella, Jerd. Mad,: Journ. xiii. p. 262 : .WCMl. P. Z. S. 1839, 

 p. 160 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 288, pi. 70. tig. 3 : Hursf. df Moore, 

 Cat. B. Mas. E.L. Co. p. 273 ; Jerd. B. Lnd. n. p. 106; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 288; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxix. pt. 2, p. 818; 

 IVald. Ibis, 1871, p. 170; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 452; Wald. 

 Ibis, 1873, p. 306. 



Irena indica, A. Hay in BlytKs Heport, J. A. S. B. xv.- p. 309 ; Bp. 

 Consp. i. p. 349. 



Adult male. General colour above deep purplish cobalt, of a purer 

 blue shade somewhat on the forehead ; scapulars as well as the lea,st 

 and median coverts coloured exactly like the back, the greater series 

 blackish, with a cobalt-blue spot at the tips of some of them ; quills 

 and tail black, with a slight bluish shade on the secondaries and 

 central tail-feathers ; lores, feathers over the eye, sides of face, 

 sides of neck, and entire under surface, including the thighs and 

 under wing-coverts, black ; under tail-coverts deep-purplish cobalt ; 

 bill and legs black ; iris ruby-red. Total length 10 inches, culmen 

 0-95, wing 5, tail 4-45, tarsus 0-75, distance between tip of tail- 

 coverts and tip of tail 1"6. 



Adult female. Different in colour from the male, being of a dull 

 Prussian blue, a little brighter and inclining to cobalt on the rump 

 and upper and under tail-coverts ; wings and tail dark brown, the 

 quills narrowly edged, and the secondaries and tail-feathers washed 

 with dull blue, the latter more conspicuously. 



Hah. Malabar and Travaucore ; Assam and Burmese provinces 

 to Tenasserim. 



a,b. [cJjad.sk. Travancore. Capt. Biddulph [C] 



c. [ cJ ] ad. sk. Moalmaza. 



d,e. [ JJ ad. sk. Tenasserim. J. C. D. Packman, Esq. [P.]. 



/.[d" Jad.sk. Siam. M. Mouhot [C.J. 



6. Irena tweeddalii. 



Adult male (type of species). Crown of head, nape, and hind 

 neck, as well as the entire back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts brilliant turquoise-blue, the head more silvery ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts turquoise-blue like the back ; rest of the 



