blackish ; ear-coverts dark blue ; cheeks and under surface of body- 

 bluish green, shaded Avith cobalt on the breast, the under tail- 

 coverts greener ; under wing-coverts green , the greater ones near 

 the edge brown ; quills brown below, lighter along the inner web ; 

 " bill black ; legs flesh)- brown : iris brown" {Jerdon). Total length 

 11 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 5-4, tail -l-G, tarsus 1-1. 

 Hah. Eastern Himalayas ; Fokien, China. 



«. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.], 



2. Cochoa purpurea. 



Cochoa purpurea, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. v. p. 359 ; Bbjth, J. A. S. B. 

 XV. p. 318 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 280 ; id. Cat. Mamm. ^c. Nepal 

 Coll. Hodgs. p. 96 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 195 ; Goidd, 

 B. Asia, part i. ; Horsf. <§• 3foore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 390 ; 

 Jerdon, B. India, ii. p. 243 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 325, no. 4872. 



Prosorinia hodgsoni, Blyth, J. A. S. B. si. p. 182. 



Prosorinia purpurea, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xii. p. 450, cum fig. ; Bp. 

 Consp. i. p. 350. 



Adult male. General colour above purplish brown, the wing- 

 coverts like the back, the greater series slightly washed with 

 lavender-grey on the outer web ; bastard plumes lavender-grey ; pri- 

 mary-coverts black, lavender-grey at base ; quills blackish, lavender 

 at base of outer web of the primaries and for a good part of the 

 same on the secondaries, the inner secondaries purplish brown like 

 the back ; tail lavender-grey, black at tip, the inner webs of the 

 outer feathers blackish ; head and nape lavender- blue ; lores, sides 

 of head, sides of face, and cheeks black, extending behind the nape 

 in the shape of a fringe ; under surface of body purplish broM^n, 

 including the under wiiig-coverts and axiUaries ; " bill and legs 

 black ; iris dark brown " {Jerdon). 



Adult female. Diiierent from the male. Dark ochraceous brown 

 above aud below ; wings and tail as in the male, but the lavender- 

 grey of the quills much paler and overshaded with the ochraceous 

 brown of the back ; the secondaries entirely like the back, with in- 

 distinct shading of grey, the tips black ; crown paler than in the 

 male, the sides of the head black, encircling the nape. Total length 

 11 inches, culmen 0*8, wing 5-55, tail 4-4, tarsus l-l. 



Nestling. Brown like the female, varied with ochraceous streaks 

 and spots down the centre of each feather, the wing-coverts having 

 large ovate drops at their ends ; head mottled with whitish lavender 

 spots on the feathers ; throat ochraceous buff; remainder of under 

 surface pale ochraceous buff, deeper on the abdomen, all the feathers 

 edged broadly with dusky brown, the under tail-coverts brown, 

 longitudinally centred with pale ochraceous. 



Hab. Himalaya Mountains. 



a-c. c? ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



d,e. $ ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



/. Pull. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



g. $ ad. sk. Nyuee Tal. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwilf [P.]. 



h. (J ad. sk. N. India. 



