5. ^THOPTGA. 19 



C. A, i. p. 405, no. 8 (1850) ; Gould, B. Ada, part 2, pi. 25 



(1850). 

 Nectaiinia labeciila, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 973(1843); Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 98 (1847). 

 ^tliopyj^a miles, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p, 103 (1850) ; Horsf. S,- Moore, 



Cat. 'B. B.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 732, no. 10G6 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. 



i. p. 362 (18G2) ; Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 32 ; Godwin-Austen, J. A. 



S. B. xxxix. p. 98 (1870) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 16 ; B/i/th ^- Walde^i, 



Cat. Mamm. ^- Birds of Burmah, p. 141, no. 491 (1875); Walden, 



Ibis, 1876, p. 348 ; llume, Str. F. 1877, p. '2Q ; Anders. Zool. 



Yunnaii Exped. p. 661 (1878). 

 ^Ethopyga goalpariensis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 103 (1850) ; Reichb. 



Handb. Scansorice, p. 301, no. 703, pi. 584. figs. 3968-70 (1854) ; 



Hume, Kests and Byijs Ind. B. p. 146 (1873). 

 Anthreptes goalpariensis, LicUt. Nomencl. Av. p. 56 (1854). 

 Promerops goalpariensis, Gruij,IIand-l. B. i. p. 110, no. 1-343 (1869). 

 yEthopvga seherite, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 122; Shelley, Monoyr. 



Necf. pi. -22 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 89. 



Eastern var, {JE. cara). 



Cinnvris mystacalis (pt.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 107 (1842). 

 Xectarinia goalpariensis (pt.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 969 (1843). 

 ^thopvga miles, Walden, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 541; id. Ibis, 1876, 



p. 348 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 419. 

 zEthopyga lathami, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 473. 

 ^tLopyga cara, Hume, I. c. (note) ; Waldeii, Ibis, 1876, p. 348 ; 



Hume ^- Davison, <SY;\ F. vi. p. 179 (1878) ; Shelley, Monoyr. JVect. 



p. 63, pi. 21 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 316 (1883). 



Adult male. Anterior half of crown, upper tail-coverts, and cen- 

 tral pair of tail-feathers metaJlic — in position B the crown purpUsh 

 green and the tail dark green ; iu position C the crown dark green, 

 tail purplish hlue ; hinder part of crown and nape and the long fluffy 

 feathers of the sides of the back olive-brown ; qiiills and wing- 

 coverts brown, edged with oHve ; under wing-coverts and axUlaries 

 and inner edge of quills white ; lower breast, flanks, and abdomen 

 grey, more or less strongly washed with olive. 



The amount of olive colour on the underparts varies from olive 

 greenish or \ello\vish (^. goalpariensis, Royle, from Kumaon and 

 N.W. Himalayas) to a clear pale ashy grey (typical jE. miles, Hodgs., 

 from Xepal). In Assam we have again the olive-bellied form (/^. 

 lahecuJa, McClelland) ; and in Burmah the birds have the nape and 

 hinder part of the cro«n red like the mantle, instead of olive-brown 

 (JE. cara, Hume). Every intermediate form, however, occurs in 

 Burmah itself, as wUl be seen from the following table : — 



Colour Cul- 



Locality. Colour of nape. of abdomen. men. Wing. Tail. 



iu. in. in. 



cJ.Biu'Diah Olive-brown. OHve-yellowish. 0"75 2-15 2-55 



f Feathers edged"] 

 I with red, with 



cJ. Burmah <J a suhtermiuid 1 Ohve-yellowish, 0'75 2"15 2-55 



I naiTow oUve 

 ' line, rest black. J 



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