27. IRENA. jy- 



colours being the same; the hue of the blue colour intense cobalt 

 very rich on the head ; the under tail-coverts produced to the very' 

 end of the tail, the upper coverts also nearlv as far; bill and le-s 

 black ; ins red. Total length i)-3 inches, culinen 0-95 win- 4-H 

 tail 3-25, tarsus O'Oo. ' ° ' 



AduUfhnale. Differs from the male exactly as does the female of 

 /. piuila from the male. 



Ofe Sumatran birds seem to be exactlj- the same as the Bornean 

 a pair from Mr. W ullace's colloctiou measuring aa follows;— ■ 



Total 



length. Ciilmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus 



(^ ad. Sumatra 0-3 1 4 65 3-r,5 



? ad. Sumatra 9-0 1 4-0 3-2.5 



in. 



055 



07 



Everett's Fairy Bluebird is an inhabitant of the islands of Borneo 

 and Sumatra. 



T r^.^^'f\ Borneo. Rajah Brooke rPl. 



L O J ad sk. Banjermassing. J. Motlev, Esq. fU 1 



c. 6 ad. sk. Jambusan, Sept. 11, Alfred Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



18/4. 



rf. c? ad sk Sibu, Sarawak. Alfred Everett, Esq. rC.l 



«,/• 6 2 ad. sk. Busan, Sarawak {A. Gould Collection 



EvcreU). 



ff. d ad sk. Sarawak/Dec. 1878. PI. Everett, Esq. [0.1 



A. d ad. sk. Labuan. Hugh Low, Esq. fC 1 



!' r n^^i ^/''r'"'- Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, Esq. fci. 



/. [ 2 J ad. sk. Sumatra. Purchased. "i l j 



m. 2 ad. sk. Sumatra {Raffles). India Museum. 



0. Irena puella. 



Fairy Eoller, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Suppl. p. 87. 



Coracias puella. Lath. Ind'. Orn. i. p. 171 ; Daud. Traite, ii. p. 264. 



Iiena puella, Jerd. Madr. Joitrn. xiii. p. 202 ; MK'leU. P Z S 1839 

 p. 160 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 288, pi. 70. tig. 3 ; Hor>^f. ^- 'Moo're, C'at 

 B. Mm. E.I. Co. p. 273 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 105 ; Grai/, Hand-l 

 B. i. p. 288; Stohczka. J. A. S. Bern/, xxxix. pt. 2, p. 318 • Wald 

 Ibis, 1871, p. 170 : Ho/dsir. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 452 ; Wald. IbiS I873' 

 p. 306 ; Annsfr. Str. F. 1876. p. 326 ; Shar^je, Cat. B. iii. p 268 • 

 Fairb. 8fr. F. 1877, p. 406 ; Hume Sf Davis. Str. F. 1878, pp 39,3' 

 616 ; Lefff/,', B. a-i/hn, p. 406 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 99 ^ Gould 

 B. Asia, part xxxiii. ' 



Irena indica, A. Hay in Bhjth's Report, J. A. S. Benq. xv p 309 • Bn 

 Consp. I p. 349. ■ ^ ■ ' •^ ■ 



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

 blue shade somewhat on the forehead ; scapulars as well as the least 

 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 tliiglis and 

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



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