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metallic, in position 15 dark blue, in C dark purple ; mantle, sides 

 of lower neck, and part of scapulars dark red ; a few feathers of the 

 lower back are tipped with pale yellow, producing a narrow yellow 

 baud across the rump ; abdomen and under tail-coverts dull olive- 

 yellow ; axillaries yellowish ; edge of wing black ; under wing- 

 coverts white ; fluft'y pectoral tufts very pale, nearly white ; bill 

 black ; iris and feet dark brown. (Type) Culmen 0-85 inch, wing 

 2-10-2-2, tail 2-S [:3-OJ-;3-;3, tarsus 0-6. 



Achdt female. Coloured like the female of JE. nipcdensis, but has 

 a pale yellowish narrow band across the rump. Wing 1-8 inch. 



Hab. Himalayas and Assam. 



fl. c? ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



b, c. (S ad. sk. Nepal (B. H. Ilody- India Museum. 



»on). 

 d. <S ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Ilndg- on, Esq. [P.]. 



(Tj'pe of species.) 

 e,f. cJ ad sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [R]. 



(Types of Al. hodgsuni, Gray.) 

 cj ad. sk. Nepal. Gould Collection. 



h. c7 ad, sk. Nepal. Purchased. 



i. (S ad. sk. Darjeeling (Eccles). F. D. Godman and 0. Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 k. S <id. sk. Darjeeling {E. H. Seebohmj Esq. [P.]. 



Harrison). 

 ■ I. cJ ad. sk. Sikhiiu, Nov. 1873. H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



m, n. (S ad. sk. Somgurli, May 29, H. Seebuhm, Esq. [P.]. 



1875. 

 0,^, J. d" ad. sk. JiooXaa {Pemlerton). India Museum. 

 r, s. c? ad. sk. Assam. India Museum. (Type of 



^. assamensis, McClelland.) 



2. .ffithopyga temmincki. 



Nectarinia temmincki, S. Mull. Natuurl. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. 

 p. 173, note (1843); S. Mull. Sj- Schl. op. dt. Zool, Aves, p. 56, 

 pi. 8. fig. 2 (1846) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 98 (1847) ; Bp. Consp.Av. 

 i. p. 405, no. 15 (1860). 

 .^Ethopyga temmincki. Reichh. llandb. Scansoria, p. 300, no. 702, 

 pi. 584. fig. 3967 (1854) ; Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 33 ; S/iarpe, Ibis, 

 1873, p. 419 ; Sakad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xiv. p. 213 (1879) ; 

 Shelley, Monoyr. Nect. p. 47, pi. 16. fig. 1. 

 Promerops temmincki, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 110, no. 1347 (1867). 

 Cinnyris temmincki, Beccari, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xiii. p. 453 

 (1878). 

 Aclidt male. Anterior half of the body all round and wing-coverts 

 brilliant carmine : central pair of tail-feathers and outer webs of the 

 others of the same colour ; on each side of the upper throat a nar- 

 row band of metallic purplish blue ; quills and inner webs of tail- 

 feathers brown, the former edged with rufous olive : a narrow band 

 of metallic purplish-blue feathers extending from the nostrils over 

 the crown in the shape of a horseshoe ; lower back and rump bright 

 yellow ; upper tail-coverts metallic purplish blue ; lower half of 

 breast, abdomen, and flanks silvery grey ; sides of breast, axillaries, 

 and under tail-coverts white ; edge of wing red ; under tail-coverts 



