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across the forehead, ear-coverts, ocular region, and edge of wing 

 booty l>hick; chest and breast bright sulphur-yellow, this colour 

 becoming ^lalcr on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; flanks and 

 under wiug-coverts white ; inner webs of remiges edged with pale 

 buff. Culmcn 0-55-0-73 inch, wing 2-2-25, tail 1-4-1-5, tarsus 

 0-60-0-75. 



Female. Upper parts earthy brown, with a slight olive shade ; 

 wings brown, with reddish-brown edges ; tail blackish brown, with 

 pale tips; breast and abdomen lemon-yellow, passing into white on 

 the rest of the underparts. 



Hah. Ceylon and Indian peninsula. 



23. Cinnyris grayi. 



Nectarinia grayi, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 479 ; Brwjg. Abhandl. 



Ver. Bremen, v. p. 72, no. 79 (1876). 

 Promerops grayi, Gray, Handr-l. B. i. p. 110, no. 1359 (1869). 

 Nectarophila grayi, Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 42, pi. 1. fig. 2; id. Tr. 



Zool. Soc. viii. p. 71 (1874) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genova, vii. 



p. 660, no. 39 (1876) ; Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 132. 

 Hermotimia grayi, Salvad. Atti R. Ace. Torino, xii. p. 310 (1877). 

 Ciimyris grayi, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 91, pi. 31 . 



Adult male. Entire crown and nape golden green ; throat and 

 fore neck rich purplish blue, bordered on the sides by a blue streak ; 

 ulnar and carpal coverts, lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 dark metallic blue with a purple gloss ; mantle, sometimes some of 

 the median coverts, hind neck, sides of neck, chest, and upper breast 

 dark blood-red, or rather black and strongly washed with red ; rest 

 of upper and under parts velvety black with a slight purplish hue ; 

 tail-feathers broadly edged with metallic purple. Culmen 0-68-^ 

 0-78 inch, wing 2-35, tail 1'6, tarsus 0'55. 



Female. Upper parts ashy olive-brown ; tail black, broadly tipped 

 with white ; crown ashy grey ; feides of head paler, fore neck silky 

 white ; rest of luiderparts pale yellow. The female of this species 

 is therefore very similar to that of G. insignis. Wing 2 inches. 



