5. ^xnopTGA. 15 



If. Sides of head aud ear-coverts 

 uuif orm red ; upper tail-coverts 



green ; tail bluish gi-een sehericp, p. 18. 



c^. Upper tail-coverts and tail rich 

 violet-blue, with no trace of 

 green. 

 «". Throat and fore neck brilliant ) siparajn, p. 21. 



pure scarlet ] nicobarwa, p. '22. 



h'. Throat aud fore neck streaked 



with bright yellow Jfavostriafa, p. 23. 



c'. Throat and fore neck dark red ; mantle black- 

 ish; central pair of tail-feathers much 

 pointed and projecting beyond the rest of 



the graduate tail christina, p. 30. 



h. Lower back, breast, and abdomen orange-red 

 or yellow. 

 d'. Throat dark metallic. 



c". Tail and upper tail-coverts scarlet {(jnicaudn, p. 25. 



d". Tail and upper tail-coverts metallic green. 



c'". Centre of mantle dark red nipalensis, p. 26. 



d'". Scarcely any red on mantle, but olive . horsjieldi, p. 27. 



e'". Black band across chest san(/uinipectus,-p. 27 . 



e". Tail aud upper tail-coverts metallic blue 



f". Chest aud upper breast scarlet dabryi, p. 28. 



g'". Chest and upper breast bright yellow . (jouldice, p. 27. 

 e' . Thi'oat yellow, nou-metalhc. 



f". Eutu-e crown metallic shelleyi, p. 29. 



g". Forehead metallic; nape aud occiput olive; 



central pair of tail-feathers much pointed hella, p. 29. 

 B. Tail much rounded, hardly graduated ; central 

 pair of feathers not projecting; all the under- 

 parts yellow Efdrepaxis. 



a. Nape red ; throat yellow dinjvenbodei, p. .30. 



b. Nape olive; throat tinged with reddish imlcherrima, p. 31. 



1. .ffithopyga saturata. 



Cinnvris saturatus, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. ii. p. 273 (1837) ; Bhjth, J. A. 

 S.'B. xi. p. 192 (1842) ; JSodgs. Grmfs Zool. Misc. 1844, p. 82. 



Cinnyi-is assamensis, McClelland, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 167. 



Nectarinia hodgsonis, Jard. 3Ionogr, Sun-birds, pp. 240, 269, pi. 28 

 (1842). 



Nectarinia hodgsoni, Grag, Cat. Mamm. ^- B. Nepal pres. Hodgs 

 p. 59 (1846) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 98 (1847). 



Nectarinia saturata, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xii. p. 976 (1843) ; Blyth, Ann. 

 4- Mag. iV. H. xx. p. 316 (1847) ; id. Cat. B. Mas. As. Soc. p. 224 

 (1849) ; Bp. C. A. i. p. 405 (1850) ; Gould, B. As. pt. 19 (1867). 



^thopvga saturata, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 103, note (1850); Reichenb. 

 Handb. Scans, p. 304, pi. 587. fig. 3986 (1854) ; Horsf. if Moore, 

 Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 735 (1856) ; Jerd. B. ikd. i. p. .367 

 (1862) ; Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 36 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 17 ; Hume, 

 Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 147 (1873) ; SlieUey,Monogr. Nect. p. 35, 

 pi. 11. 



Promerops saturata, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 110, no. 1345 (1869). 



Adult male. Head and neck aU round, breast and wing-coveits 

 scapulars, and tail sooty black — of these parts the crown and nape, 

 sides of throat, upper tail-coverts, and the central tail-feathers are 



